The Kovid Public Inquiry will begin a four -week hearing on Monday, which looks at the purchase and distribution of billions of pounds of medical equipment during the epidemic.

Overall, it has been thought that £ 48BN was spent on individual safety equipment (PPE), test-trace program, hospital supply and vaccine rollouts.

According to the organization Transparency International, about 10% of the contracts at that time were awarded a link in power for the Conservative Government.

The bereaved families have alleged an investigation into the “possible whitewash” after the representatives of PPE suppliers emerged.

This fifth section of the investigation will be heard from 50 witnesses, which is expected to include law experts, civil servants, politicians and transparency campaigners.

In interrogation, the value of the contracts provided to the companies in the epidemic will be covered, spending, the prevalence of fraud and steps taken to eliminate it.

The investigation will also see in detail on the use of the so-called “VIP lane”-officially known as high priority lane-to reward government contracts.

The idea was introduced in April 2020, the idea was to treat the proposals to supply PPE with more urgency if they came with the recommendation of ministers, MPs, members of the House of Lords or other senior officials.

At that time the government said that there was a “strict need” to protect health and social care employees, and it was argued that Swift action was required to secure PPE.

A National audit office report Later it was found that by the end of July 2020, one of the 10 suppliers in high priority lanes was awarded a contract, while the figure was less than 100 for other suppliers.

The government ordered more than 30 meters of masks, gowns and other items of PPE during Kovid, with a total of £ 14.6BN contracts.

This part of the investigation will also look at the purchase of ventilator to help patients breathe, as well as millions of lateral flow and PCR tests.

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Condolences have been accused of investigating the investigation of “to protect PPE suppliers from investigation”, after the exposure, there will be no evidence from the commercial firms involved in the contract.

Lobby Akinola, whose father Fammy died in April 2020, said individual suppliers need to be taken into account.

“If people are not invited to give evidence, how do we ever know what went wrong?” He asked.

“Kovid costs the life of about 250,000 people in the UK, and if we do not take every step to learn from mistakes, we are going to give up a weakness in our response.”

A spokesman for Kovid inquiry said that he did not need to listen to the PPE firms directly as “the government has focused on how the government responded to the proposals of the suppliers”.

“Our role is not to pursue criminal investigation in individuals or suppliers – this is a case for law enforcement,” he said.

Test It also decided in January that any sensitive evidence about PPE MedproThe supplier associated with Baronic Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Bairon will be organized privately to avoid any criminal investigation.

The chair of inquiry, Barona Hallet, has already taken evidence on other subjects including epidemic scheme and political decision making, impact on NHS and vaccine rollouts.

Later this year, future stages will include care sectors, test-traces, impact on children and economy.