Smokescreen Part 12

- Selective Surge Capacity - dealing with the problems of waste, fraud and profiteering

The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee reported that of the £12bn spent on personal protective equipment (PPE) in 2020-21, £9bn was wasted due to inflated prices or shoddy equipment.

Eight hundred seventeen million items costing £673m were defective; some were counterfeit; some PPE was so bad it couldn’t even be given away.  The government had so…