Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October 2022 to Question 61148 on Treasury: Protective Clothing, at what grade the 0.25 full time equivalent staff in his Department is employed; and since what date they have been employed.

It is long-standing Government policy not to comment on individual personnel matters. The 0.25 FTE are primarily at junior grades however it includes staff across the department and at varying levels of seniority, including senior civil servants. This number has fluctuated as issues arise over the course of any period. DHSC remain the lead department on PPE storage, but resource in HMT has also been directed towards overseeing DHSC’s work on Covid-19 PPE continuously since the start of the pandemic.