Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many units of personal protective equipment owned by his Department is being held (a) overseas and (b) in China as of 27 June 2022.
The Department currently holds 17.7 billion items of personal protective equipment (PPE), of which three billion items are recorded as held in storage in China. There are no current arrangements with other countries to store items of PPE.