More tales from the sleazy and illegal PPE horror show. committees.parliament.uk/publications/9…
We bought so much PPE we spent more three quarters of a billion pounds storing it - and (as of December 2021) we continued to spend £600,000 A DAY. 
Even now, having paused buying, we still have 3 years supply of aprons, 2.5 years of waste bags, 18 years of eye protectors, 9 years of gowns, 5 years of hand hygiene, 2.5 years of IIR masks, 3 years of FFP3 masks. All purchased at (on average) five times normal prices.
The number of items of PPE which we may not be able to use is about 10 billion - and rising fast!
From one point of view, yours or mine, this is horrendous waste.
But from another point of view, that of the associates of Tory Ministers who won these contracts through the illegal VIP lane, it was hugely useful, a transfer of masive sums of public money into their pockets.
But from another point of view, that of the associates of Tory Ministers who won these contracts through the illegal VIP lane, it was hugely useful, a transfer of masive sums of public money into their pockets.
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