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Jo Maugham QC

@JolyonMaugham

8 Nov

Just worth reminding ourselves, as we look at how the likes of Kate Bingham and Dido Harding are delivering for the nation, what's actually happening on the ground. /1

We've invested vast sums in (at least) two pieces of unproven testing technology. The first is a kind of LAMP test by a company called Optigene. We've spent £323m on Optigene technology - how is it performing? /2

Ummm. Not so good, to be honest.

As this Guardian report discloses it failed to pick up more than half of all people who actually had Coronavirus. I'd say that's pretty sub-optimal. /3 theguardian.com/world/2020/nov…

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Jo Maugham QC

@JolyonMaugham

8 Nov

So, we own something called the British Business Bank.

And through British Business Bank we own British Patient Capital.

And British Patient Capital invested $65m in the for-profit SV Health Investors' Impact Medicine Fund.

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Jo Maugham QC

@JolyonMaugham

7 Nov

"By 50% to 27% Britons believe that people should be allowed to self-identify as a gender different to the one they were assigned at birth... women and younger people, are likelier to hold more trans-friendly views": YouGov. yougov.co.uk/topics/politic…

Here's what Kantar found about differing attitudes to trans people between men and women: kantar.com/inspiration/so…

"A gender difference in attitudes also emerges, with women more
likely than men to say that prejudice towards transgender people is
'always wrong'": the British Social Attitudes Survey. bsa.natcen.ac.uk/media/39358/5_….

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Jo Maugham QC

@JolyonMaugham

4 Nov

@JimBethell

In the Lords today, @JimBethell you said this: /1

Can I ask, please, whether these terms, in the £252m contract with Ayanda, brokered by a Board of Trade adviser, were standard, please: /2

If you accept they were not standard, can you say who provided the further approval for them? /3

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Jo Maugham QC

@JolyonMaugham

4 Nov

Randox has been given a further £346.5m contract 💷➡️ from Department for Health for Covid testing, a programme headed by Dido Harding.

And Aintree Racecourse, owned by the Jockey Club which Dido Harding sits on the Board of, has also received sponsorship money 💷➡️ from Randox.

Contract award notice here ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NO….

Test and Trace isn't delivering for the nation and we think there are questions about whether it was right to give that job to Dido Harding without competition. We're suing to find out whether that decision was lawful. goodlawproject.org/news/cronyism/

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Jo Maugham QC

@JolyonMaugham

3 Nov

Worth noting that Purple Medical's Chief Exec boasted elsewhere: "We are a long-term partner of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) as well as the NHS. Purple Surgical was therefore able to access central procurement within the Cabinet Office."
theguardian.com/society/2020/n…

Reference: dentistry.co.uk/2020/06/08/ppe…

Also worth noting that we, UK taxpayers, paid £44.5m for the disappearing masks - 100% of it upfront. (atamis-1928.cloudforce.com/sfc/p/#0O00000…).

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