Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the value is of the contract between NHS Supply Chain’s Logistics Service Provider and Clipper Logistics from 1 October 2021 until 31 March 2022.

A table showing the monthly cost of the Clipper Logistics contract with NHS Supply Chain’s service provider, Unipart Logistics, from March 2020 to September 2021 is attached.

A new subcontract was entered into on 1 October 2021 and is fixed until 31 March 2022. The cost of this contract from October 2021 to January 2022 is £30.82 million. The forecast expenditure from February to 31 March 2022 is £14.1 million.