[Margaret Pilkington]

Some years ago the PPE stuff required was bought from suppliers located in this country.....businesses that supplied the NHS often relied on those contracts to survive.
The NHS is a huge buyer, but it took its custom to China....on a cost basis.
Contracts with suppliers in this country were lost....suppliers then diversified...stopped production of the stuff the NHS once bought.
We should be buying from firms in THIS country, because in situations like this the firms would pull out all the stops to supply what was required...and we would have had first dibs on it.

The government have spent 16 million quid on Ineffectual PPE.
This could have been bought from suppliers here, but as always procurement officers always look for the cheapest and the cheapest is not always of the quality that is required.
Will the government get this money back?
Who knows?