Company linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes

PPE Medpro breached 2020 contract to health department to supply sterile surgical gowns

The firm linked to former Conservative peer Michelle Mone, which was found last month to have supplied unusable personal protective equipment during the pandemic, owes 39m in unpaid taxes, according to company documents.

PPE Medpro - owned by Mone's husband, the Isle of Man-based businessman Doug Barrowman - was put into administration on 30 September, the day before the high court judgment was made public. Mrs Justice Cockerill ruled that the company had breached its contract with the Department of Health and Social Care, awarded in June 2020, to supply 25m sterile surgical gowns, and must repay the full 122m it received.