Covid-19 Debate

Full Debate: Read Full Debate
Department: Department of Health and Social Care

Lord Dobbs

Main Page: Lord Dobbs (Conservative - Life peer)

Department Debates - View all Lord Dobbs's debates with the Department of Health and Social Care


Arrangement of Business

Covid-19

Lord Dobbs Excerpts

Future Day:
Tue 28th Apr 2020
House of Lords
Thursday 23rd April 2020

(4 years ago)

Lords Chamber
Share Debate
Read Full debate Read Hansard Text Read Debate Ministerial Extracts
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff Portrait The Deputy Speaker
- Hansard -
- - Excerpts

Lord Woolf. No? Lord Dobbs.

Lord Dobbs Portrait Lord Dobbs (Con)
- Hansard -
-

Minister, are prisoners in our prison system participating in the manufacture of PPE? Does the crisis not represent an opportunity for many prisoners to not only contribute but move towards some rehabilitation?

Lord Bethell Portrait Lord Bethell
- Hansard -
- - Excerpts

My noble friend Lord Dobbs is right that there seems to be an opportunity, but I have to be candid with him. Our need for PPE runs into hundreds of millions of items. We have delivered more than 1 billion pieces of PPE since Covid began. I am afraid to say that the manufacturing abilities of Her Majesty’s prisons do not reach to that kind of level.

Return to start of debate - Return to top of page