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 18 November 2020 to question 95111 on Protective Clothing, if he will publish the number of items of (a) surgical masks, (b) FFP3 masks, (c) gowns, (d) gloves and (e) eye protection that are currently stockpiled; and what estimate he has made of how long those stockpiles of personal protective equipment will last.

Departmental statisticians are reviewing and validating the data on our personal protective stockpile (PPE) stockpile, with the intention of publishing this information as official statistics in the near future.

Since February 2020 we have ordered almost 32 billion items of PPE, the majority of which has already been delivered or is on its way and by December we had built a four-month stockpile of all COVID-19 critical PPE. We are confident we have secured enough PPE for the ongoing challenges of COVID-19 and that we have the processes and logistics in place to distribute PPE to where it is needed.