#ventilatorgate: the Dyson contract is no more
On Friday I wondered about the status of the Dyson contract, but perhaps I should have waited until today to do so as the contract has now been cancelled. Dyson claims it spent £20M developing the new ventilator but it won't try to recoup the money from the public sector. If that is the case I have the following questions:
- Why is the contract not published in full?
- How much public money (if any) was spent with it?
- What was the timeline that led to that contract?
- Were the specs for the ventilator changed halfway through the development process?
- What was the predict ramp up for production of ventilators once MHRA approval was obtained?
So the bottom line is that at the end of April not a single one of the ‘new design’ ventilators has been approved by the MHRA and is in production.