CONSERVATIVE MP Siobhan Baillie has denied claims that she referred PPE suppliers to a "VIP" lane.

The Good Law Project has published an article stating that the Stroud MP referred at least three prospective PPE offers to the Cabinet Office, with one firm bluntly requesting “VIP” access.

The campaign group also said that one of these, P14 Medical, a business run by former Conservative councillor Steve Dechan, was awarded £276m in PPE contracts after it was channelled down the "VIP" lane and that Dechan became a Conservative Party donor shortly after landing the contracts.

They added that P14 Medical were hit by further controversy when it was discovered the 120m face shields provided in a £120m deal with the DHSC struggled to gain HSE approval, and that as of June 2021 fewer than 1 in 400 had been used, meaning each face shield had cost the equivalent of £423.

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Baillie has refuted the claims, saying in a statement: “This organisation might self-style itself as the Good Law Project but I see little good in its work here and bad journalism that will mainly serve to deliberately create a torrent of misunderstanding and abuse at me on social media.

“There is a distortion of the truth that takes emails out of context, leaves out information that does not fit their agenda and adds in a dollop of assumption. It attempts to infer that I helped a local business, P14, when there is no evidence of this, and they know that.

“The Good Law Project appears to have spent months trawling my emails and correspondence with the government under the Freedom of Information Act to no avail.

“They say my office referred ‘at least three prospective PPE offers’ to the Cabinet Office.

“I have said before publicly that during the height of the pandemic, we forwarded local offers of help and suggestions. My office wrote to the Cabinet Office about one company. Its name is Care and Wear Ltd* and I thank the owners for allowing me to identify them. They will also confirm I have not met or spoken to them, and they did not receive any government contract."

Baillie claimed that the Good Law Project has emails with further information that have not been published. 

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“With regards to the other two companies, one is not a company at all but a constituent who had a suggestion we might be able to buy PPE from Mauritius," she added. "They did not ask for help. The other is a constituent who does run a business but he made a suggestion about the pandemic. He did not ask for any help from me to obtain a contract for PPE or anything else.

"What is so unpleasant about this story is that it is blindingly obvious in two emails that these people were not seeking PPE contract procurement."

Baillie concluded that the claims are "desperate stuff". 

“If this organisation has any decency, it will retract this story," she said.

Later, the Good Law Project said: "We stand by every word in the blog."

*It is understood that Baillie is referring to Wear and Care Limited rather than Care and Wear Ltd as she said in her statement.