Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the contracts were awarded to supply NHS PPE with Medicare Products Ltd and when those contracts are due to expire.

The Department does not hold any contracts with Medicare Products Ltd. Medicare Products Ltd is on a NHS Supply Chain framework contract for the supply of examination and surgical gloves into the National Health Service. The Contract Award Notice for this framework contract, which lists Medicare Products Ltd amongst the other suppliers, is available at the following link:

https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:445390-2019:TEXT:EN:HTML

This framework contract started on 30 March 2020 and ends on 29 March 2022. There is an option to extend for an additional 24 months.