Twelfth Report - Management of PPE contracts

Select Committee
Public Accounts Committee HC 260 20 July 2022
Report Status Government responded
Conclusions & Recommendations 21 items (15 recs)
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Government Response (AI assessment · 21 of 21 classified)
Accepted 10
Accepted in Part 2
Acknowledged 5
Deferred 1
Not Addressed 2
Rejected 1
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Recommendations

2 results
3 Accepted in Part
The Department remains in dispute on 176 contracts for PPE with £2.7 billion of taxpayer...
Recommendation
The Department remains in dispute on 176 contracts for PPE with £2.7 billion of taxpayer money at risk and has made little progress in tackling potential fraudulent supplies of goods. The majority of these 176 disputes relate to the quality … Read more
Government Response Summary
The government will provide a summary update on the progress of negotiations in confidence to the Committee, and has established a Dissolution Team until March 2023 with quarterly targets to resolve contractual matters, but much of the requested information is commercially sensitive.
HM Treasury
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11 Accepted in Part
The Department acknowledges that it still has many PPE contracts that have ongoing contractual issues...
Recommendation
The Department acknowledges that it still has many PPE contracts that have ongoing contractual issues that need resolving. There are 176 contracts where there are concerns about either the quality or the performance of the contract and these are collectively … Read more
Government Response Summary
The government will provide a summary update on the progress of negotiations as a whole in confidence to the Committee due to commercial sensitivity, with a Dissolution Team working to resolve contractual matters by March 2023.
HM Treasury
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