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NHS: Protective Clothing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on companies involved in supplying PPE which was subsequently marked as do not supply due to being unsuitable for use in the NHS.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 4 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 6 Nov 2024
Answer: 15 Nov 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on companies involved in supplying PPE which was subsequently marked as do not supply due to being unsuitable for use in the NHS.
6 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Department holds all pertinent contractual detail on those companies who provided personal protective equipment (PPE) products that were considered unsuitable for use. Between 1 November 2023 and 30 September 2024, approximately 432,700 pallets of unu...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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