Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civil servants are employed in his Department on overseeing the storage of Personal Protective Equipment.

Defence uses a range of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) from off-the-shelf generic PPE used in civilian settings to high-end PPE for specific environments only encountered in a military context. PPE is procured, stored and distributed both centrally and locally. For these reasons it is not possible to provide an answer to the question without incurring disproportionate cost.