Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2020 to Question 109145, for the three hundred and seventy contracts that have been awarded by his Department for the supply of all types of personal protective equipment (PPE), what the location is of the each supplier by (a) nation and (b) region of the UK; and if he will make a statement.
Contract Award Notices are published for each contract which contain information on the name and address of the supplier.
This includes 27 United Kingdom-based manufacturers who were contracted to manufacture under the personal protective equipment ‘Make’ initiative for facemasks, visors, gowns and aprons, to build and maintain a domestic supply base for the future.