PPE worth £1.4bn from single Covid deal destroyed or written off

UK government deal struck at height of pandemic described as colossal misuse of public funds'

An estimated 1.4bn-worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) bought by the government in single a deal has been destroyed or written off, according to new figures described as the worst example of waste in the Covid pandemic.

The figures obtained by the BBC under freedom of information laws showed that 1.57bn items from the NHS supplier Full Support Healthcare will never been used.