Support for the Textiles Industry
The Government must now learn lessons from the PPE scandal…
Now emerging from the review of Government’s handling of the pandemic is the enquiry around huge waste, poor quality goods and mis-spent public money on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
It looks like some individuals may carry the can for supplying poor quality PPE masks and gowns.
This enquiry will continue for years to come and the losers are the tax-payers and the UK’s textile manufacturers. All indicators are the Government’s PPE buying (public’s money) is likely to be viewed as poor value for money. Government decisions, in line with EU policy, to send off-shore much textiles manufacturing activity led to the inability of the nation to meet the Covid health protection equipment needs.
It’s ironic that Britain, once the world’s manufacturing powerhouse had, in panic, to cobble together PPE specifications and search the world for suppliers.
For the public the best enquiry outcome is that the Government learns a salutary lesson. A lesson that will lead to a review of the off shoring strategy and develop necessary initiatives to encourage and boost all manufacturing sectors of the UK’s textiles industry.
