Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have for the disposal or continued storage of PPE purchased for the UK and stored in China.
As of 28 November 2022, the Department had 118 million items of personal protective equipment (PPE) stored in China at an average weekly cost of £260,000.
We have no plans to store PPE in China in future and are working to rapidly reduce our existing holding to zero.