Government Destroys £1.4bn of PPE From One Covid Deal
A staggering £1.4bn in PPE has been destroyed or written off in the most wasteful Government deal of the pandemic.
A staggering £1.4bn in PPE has been destroyed or written off in the most wasteful Government deal of the pandemic.
The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor, a former NHS consultant, has watched Breathtaking so you don't have to. As he expected, it's NHS-worshipping, pro-lockdown, anti-Tory dross.
The Government has written off £9.9bn of the £13.6bn it spent on PPE in the pandemic because much of it is unusable. Critics said the waste is "more than it would cost to give every nurse in the NHS a 100% bonus".
According to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, of the £12bn spent on PPE in 2020-21, £9 billion was wasted due to inflated prices or shoddy equipment. Has the Government learned the lessons?
Steven Tucker recalls the Christmases of the pandemic years, when disturbing 'Covid-safe' Santas, sporting face masks and pushing vaccines, stalked the land and haunted children's dreams.
Read the Daily Sceptic’s parody of Matt Hancock’s pandemic diary. Only the slightest tweak was required to make it read like something scripted by Armando Iannucci.
China began severely restricting the export of PPE months before notifying the world of the outbreak of COVID-19, it has emerged, leading to new questions about what the Chinese authorities knew and when.
The company Supermax, which won a £316 million contract to provide PPE equipment to the NHS, has been accused of using forced labour at its manufacturing plants in Malaysia.
More than 25,000 tonnes of PPE and other types of Covid-related plastic waste has entered Earth's oceans, a new study estimates – and 71% of this is due to wash up on beaches by the end of the year.
More than £2 billion has been splashed by the Government on PPE that was so useless it could not be used in the NHS – five times higher than initial official estimates.
