Select Committee · Public Accounts Committee

Management of PPE Contracts

Status: Closed Opened: 15 Mar 2022 Closed: 8 Nov 2022 4 recommendations 17 conclusions 1 report

The NAO and PAC have previously reported on the commercial deals struck by government as part of its emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic, finding in some instances that these deals may have left government with some that failed to meet the required standards, including hundreds of millions of pounds-worth of PPE that will not …

Reports

1 report

Title	HC No.	Published	Items	Response
Twelfth Report - Management of PPE contracts	HC 260	20 Jul 2022	21	Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

2 items

2 Recommendation Twelfth Report - Management of PPE cont… Acknowledged

The Department still lacks a stock management system that enables it to fully understand what...

The Department still lacks a stock management system that enables it to fully understand what PPE it has and where it is. The Department believes that it has now received nearly all of the 37.9 billion PPE items that it has ordered, with 300 million items yet to be received. …

Government response. The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation and the department has undertaken a review of historic ministerial diaries and has, where necessary, updated the register in line with Cabinet Office requirements; the department has strengthened both reporting and quality assurance …

HM Treasury

15 Conclusion Twelfth Report - Management of PPE cont… Acknowledged

The Department told us that factoring in consideration of profit margins before these PPE contracts...

The Department told us that factoring in consideration of profit margins before these PPE contracts were awarded was not possible. While it agreed that the best way to mitigate against excessive profiteering was to build such contingencies into the contract it argued that the reality of the global market at …

Government response. The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation and is implementing a commercial reset to prevent issues with due diligence and conflicts of interest from occurring again in the future.

HM Treasury

Oral evidence sessions

1 session

Date	Witnesses
20 Apr 2022	Jonathan Marron · Department for Health and Social Care, Shona Dunn · Home Office, Sir Chris Wormald · Department of Health and Social Care	View ↗

Correspondence

3 letters

Date	Direction	Title
12 Jan 2023	—	Correspondence from Sir Chris Wormald, Permanent Secretary, Department of Healt…
12 Jan 2023	—	Correspondence from Will Quince MP, Minister of State for Health and Secondary …
24 May 2022	—	Correspondence from Sir Chris Wormald, Permanent Secretary, Department of Healt…