Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he taking to encourage the production of high grade personal protective masks in the UK.
In April 2020, Lord Deighton was appointed to spearhead Make UK and increase manufacturing of personal protective equipment (PPE) from United Kingdom-based companies.
We have established UK manufacturing across all product categories except gloves and body bags, establishing our domestic supply base in a way that will build resilience in UK supply chains in the future. We now have four Make UK providers manufacturing FFP3 facemasks in the UK.