Ppe Shortages

[Hymie]

‘We never had a national shortage of PPE’ – Health secretary Matt Hancock to the Commons health select committee (10 June).

‘In March [2020] the NHS experienced severe shortages of PPE...’ – Wording used last year by Hancock’s department in contract award documents worth billions of pounds, justifying lack of controls or competition.

Source: Private Eye

[William51]

These politicians are in office for relatively short terms and do not always understand what has been said before.