Protective Clothing: Procurement
(asked on 18th May 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the total value of personal protective equipment public procurement contracts in the financial year 2019-20; and what proportion of those contracts were fulfilled.
This question was answered on 20th August 2020
The Department and NHS Supply Chain placed contracts for personal protective equipment (PPE) totalling £129 million before 31 March 2020 to cover the additional requirement for PPE arising from COVID-19. Orders for £1.6 million were delivered before 31 March 2020, with the remainder not due for delivery until the 2020-21 financial year.