Over the past year, the Government has wasted more than £2 billion on personal protective equipment (PPE) that could not be used in the NHS. The figure is five times higher than initial official estimates and still under-estimates the true cost. The Sunday Telegraph has the story.
Some 2.1 billion items of PPE have so far been deemed unfit to keep doctors and nurses safe in clinical settings – with 10,000 shipping containers-full still to be unpacked as of May this year, said the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
The amount of unusable kit is five times higher than the number estimated by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) in January, said the select committee, which monitors public expenditure.
The wasted sum forms part of the estimated £372 billion spent by the U.K. on pandemic-containing measures which will expose taxpayers to “significant financial risks for decades to come”, the cross-party committee warned in two reports published on Sunday.
MPs say they “remain concerned that despite spending over £10 billion on supplies, the PPE stockpile is not fit for purpose” with potential levels of waste “unacceptably high”.
As of May this year, out of 32 billion items of PPE ordered by the DHSC, 11 billion had been distributed, while 12.6 billion pieces are on standby at a cost of around £6.7 million a week in storage, the PAC said.
Some 8.4 billion pieces on order from around the globe have still not arrived in the U.K.
For excess PPE that is suitable for medical use, MPs said they are concerned the Government is “yet to create any robust plans for repurposing and distributing this essential stock in a way which ensures value for money and protects staff and patients”.
A public inquiry scheduled to start next spring into the Government’s handling of the pandemic will not come swiftly enough to ensure lessons are learned, the PAC added.
Ministers also risk undermining public trust by failing to swiftly publish the full details of contracts awarded, the report said.
The PAC noted that details of three-quarters of the 1,644 contracts over £25,000 awarded up to the end of July last year were not made public within the 90-day target.
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Re your headling, President Biden didn’t order it. If any entity “ordered it”, it was the Congress who passed a law that the President signed.
Interesting he did not veto it like he did with the law passed by Congress (both parties) prohibiting ESG investing.
All the docs that are fit to read….
Agreed…as the US is at peak ‘Red Peril China’ fanaticism, I think he already knows what the documents are going to say..I suspect it’s a forgone conclusion….it’ll be China wot dunnit…….
Somehow I don’t think there will be a ton of actual verifiable evidence, and I don’t think they’ll mention Fauci, or gain of function….do you?
Yes I think it will mention Fauci. His time is up, despite a protracted rearguard action even the establishment media are no longer covering for him and Biden will use this news as useful headline cover for his own corruption and to delay the inevitable news about the catastrophic levels of death and disability due to the vaccination program.
IMO Fauci being thrown under the bus.
…I agree that what you say is what should occur but in relation to what is happening elsewhere I think this is more to do with blaming China…they are really throwing everything at it at the moment..particularly in light of Xi’s visit to Russia, and the idea of a Chinese Peace Plan for Ukraine….
Fraudci knows too much to be thrown under a bus.
AAAhh hat’s sad – Fauci being thrown under a bus!!!
I want the sniveling barsteward to stand trial and be sent to an isolation unit in a maximum security jail!!! For the rest of his life.
Hopefully sharing a cell with the father of one of the many children killed in his fraudulent ‘vaccine’ trials in the USA (see ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ by R F Kennedy Jr.)
Maybe this was the result of the House Select Sub-committee hearing, part of which was reported recently bu Dr. John Campbell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYiy2pclRxQ “Gain of function research”.
Is the EU interested in investigating the dear old German labs in Wuhan, and dodgy folk like Christian Drosten. When Merkel visited in October 2019 to open the Webasto factory and went to visit a German funded hospital: funny! Was it not given out that Webasto employees brought the first coof to Deutschland?)
Don’t leave the Germans out!
It’s all a big supranational nest of vipers, though, ain’t it?
Redacters get your Sharpies at the ready.
Gonna be a lot of black pen through anything that does eventually make its way to the public!
Entire pages will be black – the fake news will declare the black pages to be the most transparent document in history.
The more black ink, the more we know information is being withheld. However, little or no black ink would mean what is being released is fake. And I wouldn’t bet against that scenario.
Doesn’t Biden take his orders from Xi Jinping?
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Let me guess:
They will find that the virus was probably created in the Wuhan lab and released either accidentally or deliberately.
But they won’t find out who commissioned the research and/or paid for it.
So that will mean any documents that haven’t been shredded?