Covid-19: Government’s Publication of Contracts Debate

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Department: Department of Health and Social Care

Covid-19: Government’s Publication of Contracts

Jacob Young Excerpts
Tuesday 9th March 2021

(3 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jacob Young Portrait Jacob Young (Redcar) (Con)
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Throughout the pandemic, the Government, the NHS and the armed forces have focused on saving as many lives as possible, while the Labour party has focused on this sort of hindsight and political games. Saving lives meant securing as much PPE as possible as fast as possible, so can my hon. Friend confirm that all those PPE contract notices that faced a short delay in publication are now in the public domain?

Edward Argar Portrait Edward Argar
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I can confirm that the contract award notices for the contracts here, the PPE contracts, awarded directly by the Department are now in the public domain.