Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether each glove from a pair of gloves is counted as an individual piece of personal protective equipment for the purposes of statistics that his Department collates on such equipment.

Gloves are provided individually in boxes of 200, and as such are counted individually. This is standard practice within the National Health Service supply chain as gloves are supplied individually and can be used one, two, or four at a time depending on clinical need.