Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of pieces of personal protective equipment used by the NHS in 2019 were (a) masks, (b) goggles, (c) aprons, (d) pairs of gloves, (e) gowns, (f) visors and (g) other categories by (i) surgical level or (ii) grade.

Personal protective equipment (PPE) delivery statistics are published online at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ppe-deliveries-statistics-england-weekly-reports

A breakdown of PPE items distributed in 2019 has been published as part of this statistics release since 28 July. These are experimental statistics that the United Kingdom Government continues to develop in line with the requirements of those using the data.

Approximately 2.43 billion items were distributed between 1 January and 31 December 2019 to all National Health Service trusts and some social care organisations. This figure is a partial snapshot of the PPE used in the system before the COVID-19 pandemic. Individual NHS trusts can source their own PPE in addition to central distribution routes. The NHS Supply Chain has since been expanded to 58,000 different settings, including care homes, hospices and community care organisations.