One of Tory party's biggest ever donors profited from £135m of contracts with NHS
The Guardian|September 21, 2023
One of the Conservatives' biggest ever donors has profited from £135m of contracts with the Department of Health and Social Care in under four years.
Rowena Mason
One of Tory party's biggest ever donors profited from £135m of contracts with NHS

Frank Hester, a tech entrepreneur whose company supplies computer systems to the NHS, gave Rishi Sunak's party £5m this month - the joint biggest donation to the Tories in decades.

His company, the Phoenix Partnership (TPP), paid out more than £20m in dividends between 2019 and 2022, with Hester the only shareholder.

The group supplies software to about 2,700 GP surgeries in England as well as services to allow them to hold digital medical records.

Its main operating company, the Phoenix Partnership (Leeds), recorded a turnover of £75m, with profit before tax of £47m in the year to March 2022, Companies House documents show. It paid dividends during the year of £10m to its parent company, which is ultimately owned by Hester, and a salary of £515,000 to him, its sole director.

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