UK Taxpayers to Face COVID Bill for Decades to Come, MPs Warn

UK Taxpayers to Face COVID Bill for Decades to Come, MPs Warn
File photo of PPE stockpile. Leon Neal/PA
|Updated:

Taxpayers will be facing the costs of COVID-19 for decades while an inquiry will not come quickly enough to learn the lessons needed from the pandemic, MPs have said.

Two reports from the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) released on Sunday slammed the Government’s spending on unusable personal protective equipment (PPE) and said a public inquiry expected next year was not soon enough to fix some issues.