Protective Clothing: Storage
(asked on 11th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of (1) the amount of PPE purchased for the UK that is being stored in China, and (2) the cost of such storage.
This question was answered on 31st January 2023
As of 28 November 2022, the Department had 118 million items of personal protective equipment (PPE) stored in China at an average weekly cost of £260,000.
We have no plans to store PPE in China in future and are working to rapidly reduce our existing holding to zero.