Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what involvement her Department had in the recent sourcing of 400,000 medical gowns from Turkey.

The Department for International Trade in Turkey supported the delivery and airlift of this consignment of personal protection equipment (PPE) from Turkey that had been sourced directly by the NHS. My Department is engaged directly with a wide range of Turkish manufacturers over future high-volume orders of PPE.