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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

MPs criticise ‘staggering’ failures at UK Health Security Agency

Clinical staff wear PPE as they test key workers for Covid at Royal Papworth hospital in Cambridge on 5 May 2020
The chair of the MPs’ committee warned the lack of a plan for stockpiling could leave health workers exposed to danger as they were in 2020. Photograph: Neil Hall/AFP/Getty Images

Britain’s lead public health body has a staggering lack of control over billions of pounds of spending, and there is no plan for stockpiling vaccines or personal protective equipment (PPE) for a future pandemic, a damning MPs’ report has found.

The public accounts committee was highly critical of the repeated governance and financial failings at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), which was set up with great fanfare under Boris Johnson.

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