“Muddled, overstated, eye-wateringly expensive”: PAC damning on Test & Trace that has “failed on main objectives”

“Muddled, overstated, eye-wateringly expensive”: PAC damning on Test & Trace that has “failed on main objectives” In a damning report published today the Public Accounts Committee says “NHS Test & Trace has not achieved its main objective to help break chains of COVID-19 transmission and enable people to return towards a more normal way of life” despite being handed an “eye watering” budget of £37 billion over two years – and not managing to spend £8.7 billion of the first year’s allocation. Instead,  since the end of October 2020 “the country has had two more national lockdowns and case numbers have risen dramatically”.

See also: 

• NHS's 'world beating' £37BILLION Test and Trace program was 'eyewatering' waste of taxpayer cash The Daily Mail
• How NHS Test & Trace frittered away £37bn The Daily Telegraph
• NHS Test and Trace criticised as ‘eyewatering’ waste of taxpayers' money The Daily Telegraph
• NHS test and trace ‘failed its main objective’, says spending watchdog The Guardian
• Covid: Test and Trace failed its 'main objective’ and handed equivalent of 20% of NHS budget ITV News
• Contact tracing: 'Not possible' to know how many have enabled NHS Covid-19 app Public Technology
• COVID-19: NHS Test and Trace failed in its 'main objective', highly-critical report from committee of MPs finds Sky News