Billions of PPE gloves bought by UK may have been made by firms using forced labour
The TelegraphThree billion personal protective equipment gloves bought by Britain for the pandemic are under investigation amid allegations of modern slavery use by suppliers, health officials have admitted. The revelation came as MPs questioned the Government on the scale of waste during the Covid crisis after accounts revealed that taxpayers could face a £10 billion bill for items that were unused or over-priced. They revealed that three billion single gloves may be returned to suppliers because of allegations that the companies supplying them, which often rely on migrant workers, were guilty of modern slavery. Jonathan Marron, the Department of Health director general for finance, told the Public Accounts Committee that the Government now has stocks of 6.5 billion PPE items which cannot be used.
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