Unused personal protective equipment bought for hundreds of thousands of pounds is being auctioned off by the Government for as little as £250.
Millions of surplus aprons, visors, hand sanitisers and goggles are going under the hammer on the auction website Ramco as the Government bids to stop paying out millions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash to store stock.
Labour analysis using average unit prices from the National Audit Office suggests that the Government may have shelled out more than £600,000 for the goods at the height of the pandemic in 2020.
