Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which suppliers the Government has contracts with to provide personal protective equipment to social care providers.

The Government has massively expanded both our supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) from overseas and our domestic manufacturing capability.

The Government has contracted with over 100 new suppliers able to deliver at the scale and pace the United Kingdom requires and is building up UK manufacturing with signed contracts to manufacture over 2 billion items of PPE through UK-based manufacturers, including facemasks, visors, gowns and aprons. This includes companies such as: Survitec; Bolle; Jaguar Land Rover; Don & Low; and Burberry.