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Ministers’ efforts to claw back cash from PPE fraud branded ‘pitiful’

Exclusive: only £18m has been retrieved by Department of Health, out of suspect Covid contracts potentially worth £630m

Ministers have been accused of making a “pitiful attempt” to recoup taxpayers’ money wasted on fraudulent Covid contracts, after it emerged that only a fraction of the estimated total had been recovered so far.

About £18m has been retrieved by the Department of Health and Social Care through checks on personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts identified as “high risk” and through “contract management”, the Guardian can reveal.

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