Michelle Mone

Tory peer at centre of controversy over alleged links to firm awarded contract during Covid.

Baroness Mone will take a leave of absence from the House of Lords following a Covid contracts scandal.

Baroness Mone to take leave with immediate effect as government won't tell MPs to vote against Labour motion on PPE Medpro.

Baroness Mone, the Tory peer at the centre of the PPE contracts scandal, is to take a "leave of absence" from the House of Lords, it has been reported.

The standards watchdog is investigating the Tory peer over the awarding of government contracts worth more than £200m to PPE Medpro.

Tory peer Baroness Mone will take a leave of absence from the House of Lords amid controversy at her alleged links to a PPE firm.

As the criminal investigation into how Michelle Mone allegedly enriched herself on the back of dodgy PPE contracts continues, “sources” close to Michael ...

Move comes after Guardian revealed she appeared to have received millions from the profits of PPE firm.

She called it “a scandal of epic proportions”. If a peer is already on leave of absence when placed under investigation, then that can also be ended immediately. Mone has previously stated: “I completely refute these allegations. I declared all necessary interests and have done nothing wrong. Mone has previously denied having any relationship to the company. [Guardian revealed](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/23/revealed-tory-peer-michelle-mone-secretly-received-29m-from-vip-lane-ppe-firm) Lady Mone appeared to have received millions originating from the profits of a PPE company.

Baroness Mone has been linked to PPE Medpro, which won government Covid contracts.

The department is currently in mediation with PPE Medpro over what it has described as an "underperforming contract" and said it was unable to comment on specifics. However, asked in December 2020 about reports she was linked to the company, her lawyers told BBC News she "had no role or function in PPE Medpro, nor in the process by which contracts were awarded to PPE Medpro". She told MPs it appeared "tens of millions of pounds" from the money awarded to the company "ended up in offshore accounts connected to the individuals involved". Last month, Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner accused the government of a "total failure of due diligence" and a "conflict of interest" in awarding the contracts to PPE Medpro. PPE Medpro said at the time that it had delivered 100% of the contract to the terms specified and that it had supplied equipment "fully in accordance with the agreed contract, which included clear terms as to technical specification and performance criteria of the products". Tory peer Michelle Mone is taking a leave of absence from the Lords "to clear her name of the allegations that have been unjustly levelled against her", her spokesman has said.

Mone is at the centre of controversy over her alleged connections to a firm which was awarded a PPE contract during the Covid-19 pandemic. The accusations ...

Those documents need to come out and it needs to be out in the open." Transport Secretary Mark Harper said it was “incredibly disappointing” that planned industrial action had been enhanced. Mone has previously denied links to the company. He said: ”We have given instructions to doctors that where necessary they should be proactively prescribing penicillin as the best line of defence on this, and also where there is a spread in primary schools, which we know is the primary vector for this, whether they should be working with local health protection teams, and sometimes actually look at the use of antibiotics on a prophylactic basis." "It needs to be exposed now. A spokesperson for Baroness Mone said: "With immediate effect, Baroness Mone will be taking a leave of absence from the House of Lords in order to clear her name of the allegations that have been unjustly levelled against her."