At his first PMQs as opposition leader, Starmer also pressed Dominic Raab on the government's failure to make progress on its 100,000-a-day testing target.
At his first PMQs as opposition leader Keir Starmer called on the government to work with Labour to secure contracts for British manufacturers to supply frontline workers with protective equipment — after he said dozens of companies in the UK had not had a reply from the government to their offers to help.
Labour said it had passed the details of these companies over to the government to help support the national effort to get equipment to the frontline. "There's a pattern emerging here," he added,"we were slow into lockdown, slow on testing, slow on protective equipment, and now slow to take up these offers from British firms."Speaking on behalf of the government, first secretary of state Dominic Raab — who is deputising for the prime minister while he continues his recovery from coronavirus — said that all offers receive a response, and that not all equipment would meet UK safety standards.
"8,000 businesses have offered PPE in response to the government's call, and every business receives a response. 3,000 of those 8,000 are followed up, where they've got either the specification or the volume that makes it a sensible thing for the NHS to do."
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