Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a monthly breakdown of the cost of Clipper Logistics' contract with NHS Supply Chain Logistics' service provider to support the additional demand of covid and PPE between March 2020 to September 2021.

A table showing the monthly cost of the Clipper Logistics contract with NHS Supply Chain’s service provider, Unipart Logistics, from March 2020 to September 2021 is attached.

A new subcontract was entered into on 1 October 2021 and is fixed until 31 March 2022. The cost of this contract from October 2021 to January 2022 is £30.82 million. The forecast expenditure from February to 31 March 2022 is £14.1 million.