Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 23
Sixty-Sixth Report - PPE Medpro: awarding of contracts during the pandemic
Published 18 Jul 2023
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
When we reported on the Department’s 2020–21 Annual Report and Accounts, we noted that the Department was unable to verify its stock at year-end to check the quality and quantity of the inventory it owned.18 From October 2020 onwards the Department had a quality and technical function with a market surveillance authority to check the quality of PPE against essential technical specifications. However, by January 2022, it was yet to assess 1,000 of the 30,000 containers of PPE it had received.19
From: Public Accounts Committee, Sixty-Sixth Report - PPE Medpro: awarding of contracts during the pandemic (HC 1590), 18 July 2023
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 24 September 2023.