Matt Hancock and sister own shares in NHS contract firm
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BBC said:
A company in which Health Secretary Matt Hancock and his sister have shares has won contracts from NHS Wales, it has emerged.
NHS Wales gave the company, which specialises in the secure storage, shredding and scanning of documents, £300,000 of business this year.
Labour said it amounted to "cronyism at the heart of this government".
A government spokesman said that Mr Hancock had acted "entirely properly" and there was no conflict of interest.
In March this year, Mr Hancock declared in the MPs' register of interests that he had acquired more than 15% of the shares of a company called Topwood Ltd
But the register did not mention that his sister Emily Gilruth owned a larger portion of the shares and is a director of the firm, or that Topwood has links to the NHS - as first reported by the Guido Fawkes blog and Health Service Journal.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56768601NHS Wales gave the company, which specialises in the secure storage, shredding and scanning of documents, £300,000 of business this year.
Labour said it amounted to "cronyism at the heart of this government".
A government spokesman said that Mr Hancock had acted "entirely properly" and there was no conflict of interest.
In March this year, Mr Hancock declared in the MPs' register of interests that he had acquired more than 15% of the shares of a company called Topwood Ltd
But the register did not mention that his sister Emily Gilruth owned a larger portion of the shares and is a director of the firm, or that Topwood has links to the NHS - as first reported by the Guido Fawkes blog and Health Service Journal.
Non story or cronyism?
Nothing to see here, move along please and after all, everyone does it and don’t you know that the alternative was Corbyn?
That’s how it goes, isn’t it?
Corrupt to the core, this lot. Any other government and there’d be resignations or sackings. With this lot it’s just another thing to add to the increasingly long list of sleaze.
That’s how it goes, isn’t it?
Corrupt to the core, this lot. Any other government and there’d be resignations or sackings. With this lot it’s just another thing to add to the increasingly long list of sleaze.
To be fair a £300,000 contract is not a lot of beans and you and I may have shares in this company (as part of your pension fund) . Questions arise on when the shares were purchased and the involvement of Matt Hancock and his sister in the procurement process. Given this was NHS Wales (in a devolved administration) I doubt that this one is a sign of any corruption.
Given the Good Law Project is no longer allowed access to oversight government procurement, it is not surprising.
If I had the conflicts our esteemed elite seem to have, then it would be a brief conversation at the RICS, without biscuits.
The hoops a firm has to jump through for local and central government tenders is extensive, unless of course, you know or are related to a government minister or are Dido Harding.
Jinx said:
To be fair a £300,000 contract is not a lot of beans and you and I may have shares in this company (as part of your pension fund) . Questions arise on when the shares were purchased and the involvement of Matt Hancock and his sister in the procurement process. Given this was NHS Wales (in a devolved administration) I doubt that this one is a sign of any corruption.
It is an Ltd not a Plc.
valiant said:
Nothing to see here, move along please and after all, everyone does it and don’t you know that the alternative was Corbyn?
That’s how it goes, isn’t it?
Corrupt to the core, this lot. Any other government and there’d be resignations or sackings. With this lot it’s just another thing to add to the increasingly long list of sleaze.
This lot? No worse than anybody else who’s been in power, Blair seems to be doing pretty well for himself or don’t labour politicians count?That’s how it goes, isn’t it?
Corrupt to the core, this lot. Any other government and there’d be resignations or sackings. With this lot it’s just another thing to add to the increasingly long list of sleaze.
They are all like pigs around a trough.
Not just Welsh NHS contracts.
In 2019 seems the company was put on approved suppliers list for English NHS too.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-efficiency/exclu...
MH appointed in 2018. A bit economical with the truth on declaration of members interests it seems.
In 2019 seems the company was put on approved suppliers list for English NHS too.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-efficiency/exclu...
MH appointed in 2018. A bit economical with the truth on declaration of members interests it seems.
Insert Coin said:
This lot? No worse than anybody else who’s been in power, Blair seems to be doing pretty well for himself or don’t labour politicians count?
They are all like pigs around a trough.
On no, this lot have taken it to a whole new level. The pandemic has been the goose that’s laid the golden egg for this lot and their donors/family/friends/persontheymetoncewhenonholidayinlanzaroteThey are all like pigs around a trough.
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hstewie said:
hstewie said: That's another photo coming off the home office wall then 
People have shares in companies and I wasn't too bothered when I heard Hancock did but his sister being a director looks whiffy.
And are we really going down the sisters looks route?
well said.People have shares in companies and I wasn't too bothered when I heard Hancock did but his sister being a director looks whiffy.
And are we really going down the sisters looks route?
I weird thought just occured to me. Maybe, just maybe, this company are really good at shredding paper and do so for a competitive price.
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