Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution of The Paymaster General of 5 January 2022, Official report, col 122 that we have been building UK manufacturing capacity and we have been doing so by signing contracts with more than 30 British based companies for the provision of £3.9 billion items of PPE, if he will state the (a) number and (b) proportion of PPE items which were (a) imported from abroad and (b) manufactured onsite for each of those companies.

Of the 3.9 billion items ordered from United Kingdom-based manufacturers, 2.5 billion has been delivered. All 2.5 billion items have been manufactured in the UK.