clandeboye agencies offered to supply some.g contact, welsh officials had agreed an £8a0,000 contract with the sweet company. you will recall that last week i indicated that fluid resistant gowns were a particular worry area for us where we had less than a full week's supply left. i can confirm we are expecting a flight to land at cardiff airport this afternoon carrying 200,000 fluid—resistant gowns. the sweet company had ridden to the rescue. its gowns were rolled out to hospitals across wales — with some being rushed to intensive care units for immediate use. in england, a shortage of gowns had become so critical that northern ireland sent 250,000 of its own to protect front line workers. officials at the department of health and social care, or the dhsc, in whitehall, were working flat out to plug the ppe gap — and so, they too looked to the sweet company. the very next day, after the arrival of the gowns in wales, the department of health and social care agreed its own contract with clandeboye agencies. but this was a much