Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, who the primary supplier of NHS scrubs is.

NHS Supply Chain, the main provider of consumables and equipment into the National Health Service, reports that the NHS Supply Chain Hotel Services Tower, which manages supply of scrubs, has not put any tenders out to the market in the last 12 months. The NHS Supply Chain Hotel Services Tower has an existing framework contract which enables NHS trusts to purchase scrubs compliantly from a proven source of supply. There are 14 suppliers on this Framework which supply scrubs to NHS trusts.