U.K. Government Loses Case on Covid-19 Contract Disclosure
- Judge says public entitled to see where ‘money was going’
- Lawsuit was filed by three lawmakers, Good Law Project
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The U.K. failed to properly disclose details of coronavirus-related contracts, a court ruled in a lawsuit filed by three members of parliament.
Health Minister Matt Hancock failed to comply with government transparency policies, Judge Martin Chamberlain said in a ruling Friday. The group that filed the lawsuit said that if the government “continues to fail to publish contract award notices within 30 days it is doing so in full knowledge it is breaching the law.”