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Two utterly remarkable facts from Part II of the NAO Report.
PPE Prices went up by 500%...
PPE Prices went up by 500%...
... and we bought at those high prices more than twelve times as much PPE as we used in the whole of the first wave.
All of our warehouses are full and that PPE mountain is clogging up the port of Felixstowe. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54908129
It is costing us more than £1m a day in extra storage charges. https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-ppe-stockpile-at-felixstowe-costing-taxpayers-1m-a-day-12140497
We are storing it in shipping containers in fields throughout Suffolk. https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/ppe-moved-to-suffolk-airfields-1-6931841
We haven't opened the shipping containers so we don't know what we actually got from the dormant companies with which we spent hundreds of millions. But we've paid them anyway.
Goodness knows what will happen to the PPE we paid five times the usual price for as we store it in shipping containers for years.
And even if it survives for some lines of PPE we bought decades worth of supply and it will pass its expiry date long before we even open the box.
An utterly obscene waste of money from a Government that is now imposing a pay freeze on public sector workers.
An utterly obscene waste of money from a Government that is now imposing a pay freeze on public sector workers.
