The UK government incurred approximately £10 billion in financial losses due to wasted personal protective equipment (PPE) purchased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Official accounts show that a significant portion of the equipment bought during the height of the crisis was either overpriced, failed to meet safety standards, or expired before it could be utilized. The Department of Health and Social Care has faced ongoing scrutiny over its procurement processes, high storage costs, and the disposal of unusable items.
- The Department of Health and Social Care wrote off an estimated £9.9 billion spent on protective equipment purchased during the pandemic.
- Around £4 billion of the purchased PPE was deemed unusable in the National Health Service because it did not meet clinical standards.
- Inflated market prices during the initial global shortage resulted in the government paying significantly higher rates for supplies than their post-pandemic valuation.
- Large quantities of excess gear expired in storage, leading to expensive disposal programs, including incineration.
- Millions of pounds were spent on storage costs for excess stock kept in containers and warehouses across the country.
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I metre rule ..!!! Every flu control said 2 metres minimunm for test trials in those days !!!
But BREXIT
Next time there's an outbreak then the govt won't act fast enough because of such claims. The WHO was the ultimate governing body on how the crisis should be managed.
VIP lanes to bung public money to offshore trusts for rich Tory mates.
follow the money! i hope the beeb are proud of their part during the sham.
Bo jo was corrupt as hell if you was a mate of that shower of crap you got contracts,what a waste of our money
Tories took long to acquire PPE, then labour and the mainstream media attacked them for it. That resulted in rash contracts as they attempted to resolve the issue. They're both as bad as each other. We spent 5.5 billion on asylum in one year and continue to do so. Why is that not 'wasted' money?
I found 20 sealed packs of approved full PPE kit fly tipped / unlawful 'bin stuffing' / inside my personal black household refuse bin outside my house on my freehold property during covid, when it was imossible to come by!!!
WTF was that all about!!!
People died whilst politicians grifted
It wasn’t wasted, everyone got paid in the laundering operation, including the politicians.
In fairness the vax was so safe and effective what's all this crying about? Got boosted? Then The Science dictates you'll be just fine…
Why are people still watching the BBC? Do you enjoy their propoganda?
And yet they're targetting disabled folks to cut expenses……incredible….tax wealth !
wasted ???? – you mean thieved …
Those tory Donors , Family , Friends , and one Pub Landlord , will not call the £Billions wasted , much of it ended up in Their Bank Accounts .
It was laundered. The Conservative Government laundered millions with their friends.
And in all the years leading up to the pandemic, where were the serious investigative journalists doing their jobs and exposing the woeful lack of preparedness in government? Nowhere. BBC too busy literally spending HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS on someone introducing a football highlights programme, and on people reading news autocues, and on senior managers, and on propaganda. The BBC is just as guilty; you all have blood on your hands.
There should be convictions, what a massive amount of money,find out who made money illegally and bring them to justice
Another £7.6 billion was written off on fraudulent business loans during Covid. That needs chasing up now.
Taxpayers money wasted while they laughed and dined on cheese and wine
SHAME ON YOU TORIES!!!
They did it on purpose! I sad all of it was a scam at the time when everyone called me stupid and a conspiracy theorist…. The reality is if someone like me with an average education can figure that out as it was happening they knew exactly what they were doing
Because it is all the fascist Tories fault
Why just the ppe ??? What about the billions spent on paying people to sit at home for 2 years – all cheered on by the Labour Party !!??
There should never be a Tory government ever again.
Covid…It’s why more billionaires were created than ever before in history, bezos’ wealth ballooned as an example
"She couldn't find croneyism or corruption when the deals were finally done." She didn't need to: the corruption was in the unique-in-the-world-to-England fast track procedure. Trebles all round!
Did the government help with the burial costs of all the poor people that they killed ?
Ask Matt Smallcock firstly
Corruption
Nice figure. Nowhere near Accurate. There was Tens of Billions in Fraudulent payments. Anyone held Accountable??.
Yeah shocking! All this though released on the day Starmer just signed away 78 billion to Ukraine, 78 billion?? And to hide the fact that today also the Labour black hole is now 85 billion. Smoke and mirrors people. Labour are depending on your shock as little people who think 10 billion pounds is all the money in world level……while sneakily squiffing away 160 billion, snap of the fingers just like that. Boris Johnson was an arse, but Keir Starmer and the Labour Party have proved themselves as traitors to his country and it's people.
Not wasted, paid themselves with lucrative contracts
you aren't pointing out the main problem covid and you're power abuse of lockdowns caused.. you ruined the economy for a stupid virus that ended up completely dying off, where is covid now? yeah that's what i thought.. but you ruined peoples livelihoods and businesses and treated us like Prisoners rather than people.. what they did should be giving all of you general public a serious wake up call of how little freedom we truly have left. it was tyranny straight up. tyranny from a bunch of weaklings..
How much did Boris get for the contract
It wasn't wasted. It was spent the way it always was going to be. To enrich the corrupt elite to the cost of working people.
What about the billions sent to Pakistan by ISIS Labour
It was trousered..
Many people got rich or richer and nobody went to jail.
A drop in the ocean.
How much months TORIES wasted.
Your anti-Labour bias is obvious and never ending.
The timing of this story is interesting.
There have been numerous reports of wasted money during the pandemic and so this isn't new news. I wonder why the BBC have put this out now?…….. 🤔……. 🙄
This report is a whitewash, money was wasted, money was paid to friends of the government who profited financially, they told us lies, they bought shoddy goods, but they couldn’t find any criminality.