Taxpayers will be facing the costs of COVID-19 for decades while an inquiry will not come quickly enough to learn the lessons needed from the pandemic, MPs have said. Two reports from the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) released on Sunday slammed the Government’s spending on unusable personal protective equipment (PPE) and said a public inquiry expected next year was not soon enough to fix some issues. The PAC said the taxpayer would be exposed to “significant financial risks for decades to come,” and already the estimated cost of the government measures had reached £372 billion ($511 billion). The committee also “remains concerned that despite spending over £10 billion ($14 billion) on supplies, the PPE stockpile is not fit for purpose.” The PAC said that as of May this year, out of 32 billion items of PPE ordered by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), some 11 billion …