Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the extent to which the order limits set on the personal protective equipment (PPE) portal are able to fulfil the needs of social care providers for PPE.
As part of our national effort to ensure critical personal protective equipment (PPE) is delivered to the frontline, we created a PPE portal in collaboration with Ebay, Clipper and Royal Mail through which primary and social care providers could access emergency PPE.
Eligible primary and social care providers can order PPE through the portal to meet the increased need that has arisen as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.