The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, questioned Boris Johnson over the government's spending on public relations contracts, said to total about £130m in 2020. Johnson said the money was spent to raise awareness of the vaccine and enlist people to take part in trials for a potential vaccine. Starmer further questioned government spending, saying that millions had been spent on PPE that never reached frontline workers. Johnson said it had been necessary to work with providers, some of which 'were more effective than others'
