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  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 73%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  A pest control supplies firm has disclosed it made a profit of more than £9m for supplying personal protective equipment during the pandemic after it was put into the government's controversial VIP procurement lane.
  The Chichester-based firm was among a range of businesses with limited or no experience in PPE supplies which picked up major contracts during the pandemic.
  A report published in March last year by the NAO found the DHSC had awarded nearly 10,000 contracts for PPE worth £13.1bn. It reported the department was storing 3.6bn PPE items which were considered unsuitable for frontline services, accounting for about 11% of all PPE it received.
  
  
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context: It doesn’t say much about who was involved and how it all happened though. It’s probably a fair bet it was dodgy though. It’s always dodgy with this government. >
  
  Fraud in the billions. Hopefully the truth will be come out and more prison sentences for those involved. 
  The PPE scandal in theory should have been enough to end the Conservative party for good. Too much corruption in the high levels though and most will get away with it. >
  
  I wouldn't be surprised if fraud from COVID grants was 100x higher than the value of PPE fraud, that's the main one we should investigate >
  
  "good ole boys' club continues.  :-( >
  
  The same happened in the US with PPE funds, the sums of money stunning and either misspent, evaporated or simply taken without honoring the intended purposes.  Good ole boys need a wakeup call that might even include some jail time.  Let me dream, k? >
  
  We had some people trying to exploit the pandemic here as well, but this is kinda much >
  
  all this fraud and syphoning of money out of the system is why everything is becoming so expensive. someone steals a million, that means there's a deficit of a million. if they aren't going to accuse the thief and  stop the deficit then there's only one other way to get it back, from the people.