Thread by @VoxLibero

Many, inc me, are still wondering what happened to the £37Bn of public money allocated to Dildo Harding for Test & Trace. A £37Bn🧵presenting what I've discovered so far...

#GTTO #DidoHarding #ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern

I started with the summary statement from @FullFact to start my investigation. £37Bn was the budget for two years, it appears the programme was heavily dependent on "over-priced consultants" and contrary to best practice remains so.

fullfact.org/health/test-an…

The National Audit Office report (June 2021)
appears a tad limp, whimpering, I quote...

NAO 1

"It is factual and does not present a full value‑for‑money assessment."
#ToryCorruption #ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern

nao.org.uk/report/test-an…

NAO 2

"it employed more consultants in April 2021 (2,239) than in December 2020 (2,164), and as at mid-April 2021), consultants still accounted for 45% of NHST&T’s central staff"

More Tory cronies getting rich at the publics expense methinks 🙄

NAO 3

"reducing its use of consultants has been made more difficult because of skills shortages in certain areas in the civil service, uncertainties with the transition to UKHSA and comparatively low salaries in the civil service"

A svce defunded and decimated by Tories.

NAO 4

"T&T’s performance against operational targets generally improved between the end of October 2020 and April 2021, it fell well below target when
cases rose sharply in December"

Seems the expensive consultants weren't up to the job 🙄 but have been kept on anyway.

NAO 5

"T&T has reduced the time taken between a test being booked and contacts being traced, a key measure of system effectiveness, for in-person PCR tests. It is
less clear whether the wider system is operating as quickly as it needs to be fully effective"

"less clear" 🙄 BS!

NAO 6

"The overall effectiveness of the T&T process relies on public compliance, which is still low or variable. T&T is responsible for addressing low levels of public compliance"

But the 🤑consultants still have no plan for addressing this issue 🙄

NAO 7

"T&T has made very limited use of its data to assess whether differences exist in access to test and trace services for groups at higher risk of COVID-19
infection, and whether these might contribute to inequalities in outcomes"

#ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern

NAO 8

"T&T has not yet made use of the data it collects to understand if differences in access to symptomatic testing and tracing services exist for vulnerable groups, and if so, how they could be contributing to poorer COVID-19 outcomes for these groups"

'Cos they don't care!

NAO 9

"The level of future COVID-19 infections is highly uncertain, but T&T has not yet made a whole-system plan for beyond July 2021"

#ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern

NAO 10

"T&T is responsible for driving up public compliance, but research suggests that only a minority of people who have COVID-19 symptoms come forward for testing. It has no target for increasing this,
the uptake of LFD testing or compliance with self-isolation"

Incompetent!

"To achieve value for money NHST&T must be able to demonstrate both that the interventions it delivers are effective in achieving its objective, and that the mix of
interventions is the most cost-effective use of public resources"

Diplomatic code for "this is a criminal waste"

Now to the Public Accounts Committee Inquiry (Oct 2021) which appears to take an even dimmer view of the 'value for money' achieved and any hope of doing so. Some truly damning statements about the waste of our money.

#ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern #GTTO

committees.parliament.uk/work/1299/test…

PAC 1

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

'In a damning report published today the PAC says “NHST&T has not achieved its main objective to help break chains of C-19 transmission'

#GTTO

PAC 2

"T&T has been one of the most expensive health programmes delivered in the pandemic – equal to nearly 20% of the entire 2020-21 NHS England (annual) budget"

#ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern #NotMovingOn #GTTO

PAC 3

'Only 96 million of 691 million lateral flow device (LFD) tests distributed by NHST&T have been registered - 14% of the total. The Committee says “it is not clear what benefit the remaining 595 million tests have secured”'

Oooooh Gaaaaad! 🙄

PAC 4

"when under pressure, as it was over Christmas 2020 and more recently in April (2021), performance deteriorates, with only 17% of people receiving tests within 24 hours in December 2020.”

#ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern

PAC 5

"Most of the testing and contact tracing capacity that T&T paid for has not been used"

i.e. Public money has flowed geneorously into the hands of private labs for no work in return. The labs owners & shareholders will be thrilled to dine out on our cash.

PAC 6

“The national Test & Trace programme was allocated eye watering sums of taxpayers’ money"

"It set out bold ambitions but has failed to achieve them despite the vast sums thrown at it."

Dame Meg Hillier MP, Chair of the PAC

#GTTO #ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern

"The continued reliance on the over-priced consultants who ‘delivered’ this state of affairs will by itself cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds."

Dame Meg Hillier MP, Chair of the PAC

"For this huge amount of money we need to see a legacy system ready to deliver when needed but it’s just not clear what there will be to show in the long term”

Dame Meg Hillier MP, Chair of the PAC

In summary, an incompetent, criminal, waste of public money.

#GTTO