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Exclusive: FoI request shows minister was warned by civil servants of ‘risk’ but focused instead on tech firm’s investment in UK
Kemi Badenoch failed to raise the issue of the Horizon scandal or compensation for Post Office operators when she met Fujitsu at Davos last year, instead focusing on asking the firm for its views on investing in the UK.
The business secretary, who was then trade secretary, was warned by civil servants in her briefing note of the “risk” around the Horizon scandal, in...

A Tory minister on a trade mission to India said he would be happy to help the tech firm owned by the family of Rishi Sunak’s wife grow in the UK.
Trade minister Lord Johnson said he was “keen to see a bigger Infosys presence in the UK and would be happy to do what he could to facilitate that”. Infosys is now vying for UK contracts worth £750m.
Labour said documents we have uncovered are “damning”.
The top Tory told the Prime Minister’s wife’s family firm he would “do what he could” to ensure...

Unispace Global Ltd took the largest slice of the VIP lane contracts handed out by the Tories for PPE during the pandemic, landing contracts worth £679m at some of...

Mark Williams-Thomas worked on behalf of Mone, her husband and PPE Medpro to help try to identify a suspected leaker
For two consecutive Sundays, the PPE scandal involving the Conservative peer Michelle Mone has made waves. First came the release of a YouTube documentary on 10 December about Mone, her husband, Douglas Barrowman, and PPE Medpro, a company they helped to win more than £200m in government contracts.
Then came the BBC’s heavily promoted interview with the couple, in which Mone ad...

Thousands of ventilators bought for £50,000 each during the pandemic are being sold for as little as £100, the Mirror can reveal.
Many of them were never used. The Good Law Project found the machines up for grabs at online auctions, after being kept in expensive storage facilities. Last week, we watched lots going unsold, suggesting prices may have to be slashed even further.
The Good Law Project’s Jo Maugham said: “The Government held on to these ventilators for four years before selling the...

When scientists told the Government in March 2020 that hospitals faced running out of ventilators, the Tories put out a panicked “call to arms”. Seven weeks later,...

One of the biggest investors in the IT firm behind the Prime Minister's family fortune is a fund set up by two leading Tory politicians.
Somerset Capital Management LLP, founded by the Business Minister Lord Johnson, owns a £105m stake in Infosys, the Indian IT firm started by Rishi Sunak's father in law, the Sunday Mirror can reveal.
The shareholding was recently increased by around £18m shortly after Lord Johnson held a meeting with Infosys to discuss its "operations in the UK". But the Dep...

The UK branch of the rightwing “hate group” Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which supported controversial anti-abortion protests in the UK and has funded travel ...

The Department of Health and Social Care has paid a firm owned by Frank Hester, the healthcare tech tycoon, whose £5m donation to the Conservatives was revealed ea...

A Good Law Project investigation has found that the company running an illegal coal mine in South Wales has chosen to pay out £49.89m in dividends and royalties.

An investigation by Good Law Project can reveal for the first time the number of greeters deployed at last May’s local elections to help enforce the government’s voter ID rules – and the possible under-reporting of those turned away because they lacked the correct ID.

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The storm overflows taskforce set up by the government to tackle raw sewage discharges by water companies in England has only met once in the last year, a freedom of information request has revealed.
The group, which was promoted by ministers as evidence that they were taking the issue of raw sewage discharges by water companies seriously, is supposed to meet fortnightly, according to its mission statement.
But in response to a freedom of information request by the Good Law Project, officials...

Last year, raw sewage was dumped into rivers and coastal areas across England by private water companies for a total of 1.7 million hours – the equivalent of 4,808 hours every single day.

In response to the problem, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) set up a “storm overflows taskforce”, in 2020 to help “prevent harm”. But our research shows the taskforce has held just ONE meeting in twelve months – breaking its commitment to meet fortnightly.

DEFRA in response to our freedom of information request said: “the Storm Overflows Taskforce met on 30 August 2022” and at

Fox, a former Trade Minister, is the Chairman of the so-called Global Britain Commission. This is a role that is paid for by the lobbying firm, Bradshaw Advisory, who also act as the secretariat for the Commission.
The controversial lobbying of Rishi Sunak, back in February, caught the eye of the The Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists (OCRL) – the watchdog that works to monitor the activity of lobbying firms, its clients and their engagement with Ministers.
Shortly after the news...

Contents of messages obtained by Good Law Project reveal for the first time details of conversations between the former Health Secretary and Tory donor, Mustafa Mohammed.
The relationship subsequently led to a “VIP” covid testing contract being awarded to a company called Ecolog International. The contract was eventually cancelled, but not before the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) agreed to pay a £38m settlement fee.
Mustafa Mohammed has donated over £230,000 to the Conservative ...