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As Transparency International's @duncanhames.bsky.social says “the public have right to know who was fast-tracked [to VIP Lane] and on whose say-so. "Five years of resisting disclosure has been a prolonged and unnecessary failure of transparency, and it has only deepened the damage to public trust"

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Matt Hancock is named as referring 27 firms, Lord Feldman 21 and Lord Agnew 14 There's also Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson, who referred a small pharmaceutical company that was dissolved in 2022 Santander sent a dozen firms to VIP lane Non-Tory politicians referred 5 firms. None won contracts

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- Eight members of Boris Johnson’s cabinet referred firms to VIP lane, four of these ministers haven't been named before - Dominic Raab, Robert Buckland, Simon Hart, and Robert Jenrick Firms in the VIP lane were 10 times more likely to win contracts, according to the National Audit Office.

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Democracy for Sale's @jennacorderoy.bsky.social first asked for all names of VIP Lane firms and politicians who referred them in 2021 The government refused. It took years of appeals, a tribunal ruling and an intervention from the Information Commissioner - but now we have them. So what's there?

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