In his ruling, Judge Sebastian Prentis placed the company into liquidation.
He said: “The department’s debt is very large indeed and it is a debt which has been incurred through the supply of defective equipment at a time of national crisis.”
Judge Prentis said that there would be “questions of how this debt may be recovered” from the firm, adding that there was “very little” money left.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the DHSC would not rest until it had got back the “hard-earned taxpayer money paid to rogue operators like PPE Medpro”.
He added: “During the pandemic, when the whole country was making huge sacrifices, separated from family and loved ones, PPE Medpro supplied defective PPE and unfairly profited.
“We will keep going after PPE Medpro with everything we’ve got to get these funds back where they belong – in our NHS.”
