Protective Clothing: Local Government

(asked on 17th September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to require local authorities to maintain stockpiles of personal protection equipment.


Answered by
Lord Bethell Portrait
Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 20th October 2020

The Government is not requiring local authorities to maintain stockpiles of personal protective equipment (PPE). Nevertheless, on 14 August the Department wrote to local resilience forums (LRFs) to advise on the management of COVID-19 stockpiles of PPE. The majority of LRFs have now been provided with stockpile deliveries of PPE. This will help create local reserves that can be used to manage any temporary increases in demand associated with any potential COVID-19 spike, winter pressures or any other temporary issues with distribution mechanisms. In the case where an LRF uses over 30% of its stock of any PPE item from their stockpile, the Department will arrange further deliveries from centrally managed supplies.

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