Department of Health and Social Care looking into allegations over purchases in first year of pandemic

Ministers may have bought 3bn protective gloves that were manufactured using modern slavery in the first year of the pandemic, MPs have been told.

On Monday, officials from the Department of Health and Social Care told the public accounts committee they were investigating allegations that the gloves were produced by forced labour.

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