Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) masks, (b) visors, (c) pairs of gloves and (d) other items of personal protective equipment were provided to (i) UK Border Force and (ii) UK Visas and Immigration staff for use in preventing the spread of covid-19 in each week since 1 January 2020.

Detailed Border Force record keeping commenced from 12^th February when Public Health England (PHE) guidance for First Responders changed. Over 850,000 individual items of PPE have been provided to Border Force officers.

Border Force have also supplied a significant number of additional protective items/measures such as hand sanitizer & wipes which is not classed as PPE.

Since 1st March 2020 over 44,000 individual items of PPE have been provided to UKVI staff in customer facing roles along with thousands of protective measures such as hand sanitiser/antibacterial wipes. UKVI also currently have over 22,000 individual items of PPE on order.