Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason the delivery of supplies of personal protective equipment to Birmingham and the West Midlands under the Clipper system has been delayed; and when those supplies will be available to (a) care homes and (b) general practices.

An online personal protective equipment (PPE) Portal is under development to enable primary, social, and community care providers to request critical PPE. The PPE portal is not delayed and has been tested with the sector and is now being scaled up nationally over the coming weeks.

All general practitioners and small social care providers in Birmingham and West Midlands have now been invited to register and order with the PPE Portal.