£1.4bn of PPE destroyed or written off by ministers 

PPE ( Personal Protectiv Equipment)  worth approximately £1.4bn, purchased by the Government in a single deal during the pandemic, has been destroyed or written off. The BBC revealed that 1.57 billion items of PPE from Northamptonshire supplier Full Support Healthcare will never be used. Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting criticised this as “the worst example” of waste, with at least £100m spent on storing and incinerating the excess stock