Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many suppliers of personal protective equipment to whom contracts were issued through the high priority lane did not receive a rating either (a) red, (b) amber or (c) green in his Department's financial assessment.

All offers received a rigorous financial, commercial, legal and policy assessment led by officials from various Government departments using a number of different processes to complete due diligence checks. A proportion of the assessments made included a red, amber or green rating. However, as multiple systems were used to record these checks, the information requested is not held centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate cost.