Taxpayers stung for billions of pounds-worth of useless PPE are now forking out again – for lags to secretly dismantle surplus kit.
Prisoners are handed £3.50 per day to remove recyclable materials from packs of masks, visors and other gear – then dump the rest.
In an extraordinary move, seven million testing kits – some reportedly in date – were put on lorries and dropped off at jails to be broken up.
