Public Spending: Value for Money

Part of Treasury – in the House of Commons am ar 20 Rhagfyr 2022.

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Photo of John Glen John Glen The Chief Secretary to the Treasury

I acknowledge that figure in that report, but it refers to the write-down that was necessary following a situation where we acquired a lot of PPE at a time of acute demand and shortage of supply. It was an adjustment for that. Of course, 97% of all PPE was suitable for use in healthcare and non-healthcare settings. While I take the general point that the hon. Lady is making about concern for the most vulnerable in communities, which has been addressed by the £37 billion of support we have put in this year, those are the facts around the figure that she raises.