Lord Markham, the Department of Health and Social Care, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3630):
Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :
To ask His Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 17 November (HL Deb cols 207GC to 215GC), how much it has cost to date to store 120 million items of PPE in China. (HL3630)
Tabled on: 22 November 2022
Answer:
Lord Markham:
From April to September 2022, the cost of storing personal protective equipment in China was £16.3 million. We aim to further reduce this expenditure.
Date and time of answer: 29 Nov 2022 at 13:16.
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Lord Markham, the Department of Health and Social Care, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL3631):
Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :
To ask His Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 17 November (HL Deb cols 207GC to 215GC), how much longer 120 million items of PPE will be stored in China; and how much they anticipate this will cost. (HL3631)
Tabled on: 22 November 2022
Answer:
Lord Markham:
We aim to reduce the cost of storing personal protective equipment in China and further information will be available in due course.
Date and time of answer: 29 Nov 2022 at 13:17.