By Nick Sommerlad More than £300m of taxpayers’ money spent by the Government on “VIP lane” Covid contracts is likely to have been lost after the companies involved shut up shop, the Mirror can reveal. Firms that landed massive pandemic contracts have now stopped trading, meaning that hundreds of millions of pounds spent on unusable PPE is likely to never be recovered. The Good Law Project has found that 14% of the 51 companies that landed multimillion-pound contracts through the so-called VIP Lane in 2020 are no longer trading. These seven companies won over £611m in Government contracts to s…