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Awarded £180m PPE contracts after its application was supported by the director of NHS Wales Yesterday, Michael Bowsher QC, who represented Hancock, disputed the Good Law Project’s claims about information disclosure in the contracts which are reported to be collectively worth £650m. He said the Good Law Project wanted to “expand” the scope of a disclosure exercise and “fish”. Justice O’Farrell made no criticism of Hancock when ruling on information disclosure issues. Coppel told the judge the case concerned contracts for the supply of personal protective equipment, ranging in value from £32m to £252m, which the Government entered into in April and May 2020.
Boris Johnson prepared to take SNP to Supreme Court to stop second independence referendum
Government advisers gearing up to deploy a not now argument to any request for a fresh poll on split with the Union
30 April 2021 • 9:30pm
The political challenge for Ms Sturgeon will be judging when to switch from pandemic fire-fighting to all-out constitutional wrangling
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Boris Johnson is prepared to take the SNP to the Supreme Court to stop the party unilaterally holding a second Scottish independence referendum should it win next week’s Holyrood elections.
The Government has legal advice dating back to 2011 that argues the Scottish Parliament cannot hold a binding independence referendum without the UK Parliament s approval.
Spain s tourism minister says country looks forward to welcoming Britons back
Fernando Valdes Verelst said June will be start of recovery of tourism in Spain
Grant Shapps confirmed Government is working on using existing NHS app to allow people to show whether they have been vaccinated or had negative test
The transport secretary is expected to use G7 summit to sort out travel corridors
Plan is to get Covid passport deal with France, Italy and Germany by end of June
Greece says that NHS vaccination card and random testing will suffice from May