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Chris Challenges The Taxpayer Impact Of Money Wasted On PPE

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Thursday, 24 November, 2022
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Chris Challenges The Taxpayer Impact Of Money Wasted On PPE

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Christopher Chope Conservative, Christchurch

Does my hon. Friend agree that if we had not wasted billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on PPE, we would not have to increase taxes as much as we are doing? What has happened to the £122 million that was spent on 25 million gowns supplied by the company referred to earlier? Those gowns were not fit for purpose and were never used.

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Neil O'Brien The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care

That was the underperforming contract that I referred to in my previous answer, and I set out the process that we go through when we take action on underperforming contracts. There is the initial letter before action, and then a process in which we look to see if a satisfactory agreement can be reached. If not, that leads on to litigation. Of course, there was wasted PPE—my hon. Friend is absolutely correct about that—but I have already set out the context of the global scramble and the huge amount of PPE that was successfully delivered, saving lives and protecting workers in our NHS.

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