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 12 June 2020 to Question 52266, on Care Homes: Protective Clothing, if his Department will list the designated wholesalers for onward sale to social care providers.

On 15 April, the Adult Social Care Action Plan set out how the Government will support the adult social care sector specifically and includes guidance on the use and distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) in social care settings. In this plan, the Government listed the designated wholesalers equipped with PPE for onward sale to social care providers.

Additional communications to social care settings have gone out to the sector as more suppliers have come forward to assist, subject to our due diligence process.