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Track and trace bosses treated taxpayers as an ‘ATM machine,’ Labour charges
MPs say the government's programme failed to deliver despite spending £37 billion
A package of seven NHS Test and Trace Covid-19 self-testing kits
TEST and Trace bosses treated taxpayers “as if they were an ATM machine,” Labour charged today after a panel of MPs found that the programme had failed to deliver despite spending £37 billion.
The public accounts committee said that the scheme’s outcomes had been “overstated” or not met, despite it receiving lavish funding, equivalent to a fifth of the annual NHS budget.
In a highly critical report published today, the committee said that the programme’s continued over-reliance on consultants — paid a whopping £1,100 a day on average — probably cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds.
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