Recommendation 18

We asked the Department how the transfer back to SCCL had gone and it was very positive about the process. It said that nothing had really been interrupted from a logistics perspective and that the reality is that the Department and SCCL had been working “hand in glove before the transition”.55 It told us that the two had undergone six months of “intensive planning” to prepare for SCCL taking back operational responsibilities. Forty-four departmental staff members that worked on the PPE programme have been transferred over to SCCL to help try and ensure a smooth transition.56 All of the 70 sites that the Department has established over the last couple of years to store PPE are now the responsibility of SCCL to manage.57