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The Department for Health and Social Care purchased 37.9 billion items of PPE in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two years on from that initial procurement activity the Department is still having to manage many of the contracts that it signed.
The Department is in dispute with PPE suppliers on 176 contracts with up to £2.7 billion of taxpayers’ money at risk.
Much of the PPE still resides in storage locations, both around the UK and in China and at various supplier storage locations.
It is exploring options for selling, donating and recycling this PPE.