Gulliver, that news is almost a year old. The judge said this:
//Mrs Justice O'Farrell ruled that while the use of the VIP lane - officially known as the high priority lane - was unlawful, she found that both of the companies' offers "justified priority treatment" on their merits and were "very likely" to have been awarded contracts even without it.
The judge said the DHSC's evidence "establishes that presence on the high priority lane did not confer any advantage at the decision-making stage of the process", but she said it was clear that "offers that were introduced through the senior referrers received earlier consideration at the outset of the process".
She said the high priority lane team was better resourced and able to respond more quickly to offers but she also found "sufficient financial due diligence" was carried out in respect of both sets of contracts. //
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59968037
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