Coronavirus: Government committed £15bn to buy PPE as COVID-19 spending revealed

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Revealed: How much government has spent on COVID19 response - including £15bn on PPE

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In total, direct fiscal support worth almost £160bn - including the near £50bn spend on public services - has been announced by the government since 11 March to deal with the crisis. This includes £69bn on employment support - such as the government's furlough scheme for workers and income support scheme for the self-employed - and business support worth £30bn.The near £160bn sum is almost £30bn more than the latest estimate from the Office for Budget Responsibility , which stands at £133bn.

This does not include the £30bn package of extra measures announced by Mr Sunak on Wednesday, which contained an"Eat Out to Help Out" scheme to provide half-price meals at restaurants, cafes and pubs for Britons during August.

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£15bn on PPE with some of that buying faulty crap imported PPE and faulty testing kits from overseas. Wasted funds when it could of been invested in production of equipment right here in the UK.

All £15 billion to China?

Here's some real journalism that doesn't conveniently miss the massive elephant in the room and how its been challenged.

Even at £1 an item, over 30 weeks, that is 500 million items of PPE a week.... really?

We have spent,it is our money slynews

How the hell can you spend 15 thousand million pound on ppe ?

15b feck me i say china is laughing all the way to the bank

congz to UK govt they spent enough on real cases unlike for my country uganda who faked cases n have spent almost half of that

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