Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional items of personal protective equipment were bought in response to the recommendations of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group meeting in June 2019.

No new visors were bought in response to the recommendation as the stock of eye glasses did not require replenishment. A procurement for surgical gowns had commenced but not completed before the commencement of the COVID-19 incident.