Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 June 2022 to Question 18920, on Department of Health and Social Care: Protective Clothing, when her Department began employing three full-time equivalent staff at the SCS1 pay band and 0.5 full-time equivalent staff at SCS2 to oversee the storage of personal protective equipment; and whether the same number of staff are currently employed for that purpose.

These staff were employed from 1 October 2021 and are currently employed for this purpose.