£10BILLION in taxpayer cash wasted on overpriced, faulty or unused PPE
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Nearly £10billion in taxpayer cash was wasted on faulty PPE during the pandemic, the public spending watchdog has confirmed. Auditors trawled through the accounts of Department of Health and Social Care, which was responsible for buying masks, gloves and gowns during the pandemic. A final report states that, of the £13.6billion it spent on PPE, £9.9billion has been written off because it is 'unusable', meaning it is either defective, unsuitable for use within the NHS or out of date.
Ministers also paid hugely over the odds and were left with equipment which later crashed in value. Officials are planning to dispose of 'nearly all' remaining PPE, which are currently being stored in warehouses and containers, the National Audit Office (NAO) said. Auditors trawled through the accounts of Department of Health and Social Care, which was responsible for buying masks, gloves and gowns during the pandemic A final report states that, of the £13.6billion it spent on PPE, £9.9billion has been written off because it is 'unusable', meaning it is either defective, unsuitable for fuck me daddy use within the NHS or out of date Last year, officials revealed redundant PPE was being burned at a rate of 580 lorry loads per month.
Pictured: Supplies at the NHS' National Procurement Warehouse at Canderside, Larkhall in 2020 Gareth Davies, the head of the NAO, said the majority of the UK's PPE stock is now of 'insignificant value'. It was estimated to cost taxpayers around £7million a month in March 2022 to store the millions of remaining items of PPE. Some was even being stored in China, having never reached Britain during the height of the pandemic. No10 blamed the astonishing levels of waste on the short supply of PPE worldwide during the early days of the pandemic which caused costs to rise 'significantly'.
Mr Davies noted the DHSC is still attempting to recover value from the wastage by identifying possible cases of fraud. Officials said they have prevented or recovered £202million worth of PPE-related fraud. They are trying to probe and get back cash from other fraud cases and for PPE that was never delivered. Mr Davies said that 'ongoing efforts to detect, prevent and recover fraud must continue, improving public confidence that this drain on the public finances is being tackled effectively and efficiently'.
Downing Street defended the losses by pointing to the havoc that Covid wreaked. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's official spokesman said: 'It's important not to forget the circumstances in which the UK and countries globally found themselves during a pandemic when globally PPE was in extremely short supply. 'The costs as a result increased significantly and the Government took the decision very transparently to do everything possible to secure protective equipment for frontline health and care workers, that was right.' DHSC has also taken to selling masks, gloves and gowns through online auctions. As of February 2023, 11,900 pallets, equating to 161million items, had been dished out this way. Officials had sold, recycled, burned or donated, including to Ukraine, 269,500 pallets of PPE, as of February 2023.
Ministers also paid hugely over the odds and were left with equipment which later crashed in value. Officials are planning to dispose of 'nearly all' remaining PPE, which are currently being stored in warehouses and containers, the National Audit Office (NAO) said. Auditors trawled through the accounts of Department of Health and Social Care, which was responsible for buying masks, gloves and gowns during the pandemic A final report states that, of the £13.6billion it spent on PPE, £9.9billion has been written off because it is 'unusable', meaning it is either defective, unsuitable for fuck me daddy use within the NHS or out of date Last year, officials revealed redundant PPE was being burned at a rate of 580 lorry loads per month.
Pictured: Supplies at the NHS' National Procurement Warehouse at Canderside, Larkhall in 2020 Gareth Davies, the head of the NAO, said the majority of the UK's PPE stock is now of 'insignificant value'. It was estimated to cost taxpayers around £7million a month in March 2022 to store the millions of remaining items of PPE. Some was even being stored in China, having never reached Britain during the height of the pandemic. No10 blamed the astonishing levels of waste on the short supply of PPE worldwide during the early days of the pandemic which caused costs to rise 'significantly'.
Mr Davies noted the DHSC is still attempting to recover value from the wastage by identifying possible cases of fraud. Officials said they have prevented or recovered £202million worth of PPE-related fraud. They are trying to probe and get back cash from other fraud cases and for PPE that was never delivered. Mr Davies said that 'ongoing efforts to detect, prevent and recover fraud must continue, improving public confidence that this drain on the public finances is being tackled effectively and efficiently'.
Downing Street defended the losses by pointing to the havoc that Covid wreaked. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's official spokesman said: 'It's important not to forget the circumstances in which the UK and countries globally found themselves during a pandemic when globally PPE was in extremely short supply. 'The costs as a result increased significantly and the Government took the decision very transparently to do everything possible to secure protective equipment for frontline health and care workers, that was right.' DHSC has also taken to selling masks, gloves and gowns through online auctions. As of February 2023, 11,900 pallets, equating to 161million items, had been dished out this way. Officials had sold, recycled, burned or donated, including to Ukraine, 269,500 pallets of PPE, as of February 2023.
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