One of the biggest problems during the pandemic, which came out of China and became a global pandemic, was the question of everybody scraping around trying to find PPE, most of which was manufactured in China. Is it therefore part of the hon. Lady’s argument that we should have strategic manufacturing of PPE—either here or certainly in democracies that we can trust—to which we get earlier access, or will we just leave it to be produced somewhere else?
Procurement Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Iain Duncan Smith
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 13 June 2023.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Procurement Bill [Lords].
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