The panel is investigating how the government came to spend $5 billion on protective gear that has to be dumped because it is defective or does not meet U.K. standards.
FILE - In this Thursday, April 16, 2020 photo, a view of masks and goggles, part of PPE, personal protective equipment, to avoid being infected or transmitting coronavirus, at the Nightingale Hospital North West set up in the Manchester Central Convention Complex in Manchester, northern England.
“The costs and environmental impact of disposing of the excess and unusable PPE is unclear,” the committee noted. The government said not all the 4 billion pounds' worth of equipment would be burned. The Department of Health said only about 670 million pounds' worth of the PPE was “unusable in any context.” It said some of the excess stock would be repurposed for use by dentists or donated to charities, transport agencies and other countries.
Opposition Labour Party lawmaker Meg Hillier, who chairs the committee, said the PPE saga was “perhaps the most shameful episode in the U.K. government response to the pandemic.”
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