Protective Clothing: Storage
(asked on 15th July 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 April 2022 to Question 125078 on Protective Clothing: Storage, how many units of personal protective equipment were in storage in warehouses as of 14 February 2022; and what the cost is to the public purse of that storage.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 25th July 2022
As of 14 February 2022, there were 6.2 billion items of personal protective equipment in warehouse storage in the United Kingdom and China at a cost of £4 million per week.