Covid spending: Watchdog finds MPs’ contacts were given priority

And if you have a process where companies referred by ministers’ offices, MPs, peers and health chiefs get ‘fast-tracked’ – and are therefore ten times as likely to win a contract – there’s an even stronger risk that contracts are seen to be awarded not on merit or value for money but because of personal connections.

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