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MPs' fury over Government's decision to order ventilators from China
The Government has asked China to supply ventilators to the NHS after a number of British companies were rejected for failing to meet the specifications, The Telegraph has learned.
Hundreds of Chinese-made ventilators will start arriving in the country this week as part of a consignment of 8,000 items being shipped from overseas to help patients infected with coronavirus in the UK.
It comes after
Ventilator Challenge UK, a consortium of British engineering firms including Airbus, Rolls-Royce and BAE Systems, secured an order for
10,000 of two types of machine currently produced by Smiths Medical of Luton and an Oxfordshire-based firm called Penlon.
A reservation for 5,000 machines has also been placed with Smiths, on top of a further order for
10,000 from the vacuum cleaner manufacturer Dyson.
There are
8,000 ventilators currently in the NHS, but it is understood the Chinese ventilators are needed now to top up supplies before the British-made machines roll off the production line.
Michael Gove, Minister for the Cabinet Office, said the Government will roll out ventilators produced by manufacturers in the UK from next week.
Dyson will be making its ventilators under a new design that requires regulatory approval, which could delay their dispatch to hospitals.
A graphic representation of CoVent ventilator attached to a hospital bed, designed by Dyson CREDIT: Dyson/Reuters
A Cabinet source revealed: "Quite a few British companies have been told they don't meet the spec, so we are now going to be ordering ventilators and other PPE [personal protective equipment] from China. It's more than ironic that the country where this disease originated is now set to benefit from the havoc it has wreaked on the rest of the world."
Former Conservative leader
Iain Duncan Smith, an outspoken critic of China's growing influence, said the totalitarian state should be providing ventilators and other equipment for free.
"China shouldn’t be charging for this stuff. Why are they making money out of Covid-19 when it started in China? They shouldn’t be deriving any significant benefit at all."
It came after former "de facto" deputy prime minister Damian Green blamed China for allowing the global pandemic to develop "because of unhygienic practices in markets", and called for a cooling of international relations.
Mr Green, formerly Theresa May’s right-hand man, has previously voiced concerns about Chinese technology firm Huawei being granted access to the UK's 5G network.
He said: "The UK stance towards China, regrettably, may have to become similar to our attitude to Russia in the more peaceful stages of the Cold War.
"Co-operate where we can, but guard when we must."
Writing on the Conservative Home website, Mr Green said it was "undeniable" that coronavirus had originated in the China's wet markets, where live animals are sold,
sparking the initial outbreak in Hubei province.
Accusing the Chinese authorities of being “dilatory in informing the World Health Organization” Mr Green argued that a "deeper look at the long-term interdependence of Western capitalism and Chinese communism" would "take place" once countries were done fighting their respective health emergencies.
Meanwhile, Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, suggested that a "lessons learnt" inquiry would be needed in the aftermath of the crisis due to questions surrounding the Communist nation's handling of Covid-19. Yet Mr Raab is thought to have been involved in the brokering of the NHS ventilator deal with President Xi Jingping.
Fellow Conservative MP Bob Stewart was forced to apologise after referring to coronavirus as "the foul Chinese illness" but said the description was not intended to denigrate Chinese people.
A source close to the Department for Health admitted that ventilators and PPE had been ordered from China, saying: "We are basically saying that we will take this stuff from wherever we can get it, as quickly as we can get it. We were never just looking at British companies.
"Some UK firms that offered to make ventilators were not able to meet the spec, and we do not want eight or nine different types of machine in the NHS. We need to work with companies that can produce exactly what we want, when we want it."
To hasten the procurement of ventilators and PPE, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced he is waiving import taxes on medical equipment to ensure it gets to frontline health workers as quickly as possible.
NHS suppliers will no longer have to pay customs duty and import VAT on specific medical goods coming from outside the EU, including ventilators, testing kits and PPE.
