Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much personal protective equipment stock was available for social care workers in each fortnight from 1 January 2020 to date; and what the composition of that stock was.

We are working around the clock to give the social care sector and wider National Health Service the equipment and support they need to tackle this outbreak.

We have made over 68 million items of personal protective equipment (PPE) available to designated wholesalers for onward sale to social care providers and delivered a further 94 million items to local resilience forums (LRFs) between 6 April and 12 May to help them respond to urgent local spikes in need across the adult social care system and some other front-line services, where providers are unable to access PPE through their usual, or dedicated wholesaler routes.

The full weight of the Government is behind this effort and we are working closely with industry, social care providers, the NHS, and the army to ensure the right equipment continues to be delivered.

Information on how much personal protective equipment (PPE) stock was available for social care workers is not available centrally.