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Twelfth Report - Management of PPE cont…
Not Addressed
The Department told us that it has now received nearly all of the 37.9 billion items of PPE which it ordered, with only 300 million items outstanding. It told us that whilst it has now opened every container it has received there are still 1.39 billion PPE items that have …
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The Department told us that it has now received nearly all of the 37.9 billion items of PPE which it ordered, with only 300 million items outstanding. It told us that whilst it has now opened every container it has received there are still 1.39 billion PPE items that have not been fully quality assured.16 The NAO reported that quality assurance checks have resulted in 11% of PPE items being deemed not suitable for front-line services, equivalent to 3.6 billion items at the time of reporting.17 The Department was unable to offer any definitive timescales on when it would complete its quality checks.18
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Government response AI summary
Acknowledges the conclusion about the lack of a stock management system.
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Conclusion
Twelfth Report - Management of PPE cont…
Not Addressed
We asked what assurances the Department could give us about the accuracy of its stock numbers. This was because the NAO reported that it could not fully reconcile the numbers from the stock model with individual contracts and said it was therefore unable to gain assurance over the accuracy of …
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We asked what assurances the Department could give us about the accuracy of its stock numbers. This was because the NAO reported that it could not fully reconcile the numbers from the stock model with individual contracts and said it was therefore unable to gain assurance over the accuracy of the numbers.19 The Department told us that these differences should be attributed to the fact that the stock model was not intended to be a 8 Q35 9 C&AG’s Report, para 13 10 C&AG’s Report, para 2.9 11 Q53 12 Q54 13 C&AG’s Report, para 2.5 14 Q41 15 C&AG’s Report, para 2.7 16 Q3 17 C&AG’s Report, para 2.11 18 Qq6–8 19 C&AG’s Report, Investigation into the management of PPE contracts, session 2021–22, HC 1144, 30 March 2022, para 2.2 10 Management of PPE contracts completely accurate account of all PPE stock. It said that the stock model existed to ensure that PPE could be moved around effectively.20 The Department was adamant that it knows exactly where all its stock is currently located.21 PPE stock is, however, scattered around the country; the Department listed 70 locations where it is stored, saying that it owns 50 warehouses itself and around 11,500 containers are still in use by the Department, with some PPE also still stored in China.22
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Government response AI summary
Acknowledges the conclusion about the accuracy of stock numbers.
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HM Treasury