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Spotlight: Covid Contracts: Hunting for PPE

14/12/2021

BBC One - Spotlight, Covid Contracts: Hunting for PPE

What happened to £107 million of PPE which government bought from a NI sweet company.

Lyndsey Telford investigates what happened to £107 million of PPE which government bought from a NI sweet company during the pandemic.

At a key point in the pandemic, the government signed a £107 million deal to buy PPE from a NI sweet company. Lyndsey Telford investigates what happened next, and how a box of kit that cost the taxpayer £1,000 came to be sold for just a fiver.



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