Scathing report blasts ‘unimaginable’ £37bn cost of coronavirus test and trace system Andrew Woodcock © PA Wire/PA Images NHS Test and Trace staff set up at the Liverpool Tennis Centre in Wavertree, ahead of the start of mass Covid-19 testing in Liverpool. (Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images)
Dido Harding’s test and trace system has swallowed up “unimaginable” amounts of taxpayers’ money with no evidence of any measurable difference on the progress of the coronavirus pandemic, a scathing report by a Westminster spending watchdog has found.
The report said NHS test and trace must “wean itself off” its reliance on private-sector consultants, after figures showed it was still employing around 2,500 in early February on an estimated daily rate of £1,100 a head – with the highest-paid individual costing taxpayers £6,624 a day.
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