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…
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