Thread by @MoretteThompson

@covidinquiryuk Does anyone know if this £500million pandemic contact centre paid for in 2017 was used during 2020/2022 #COVID pandemic?
Why then did we need to pay £37 billion to Dido Harding for #TestAndTrace ? !!
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theguardian.com/government-com…

@covidinquiryuk Does anyone know if £37 Billion was in fact an administrative typo?
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@covidinquiryuk Whats full breakdown of £37B?
End Oct 2020 £478M on contact tracing.
£464 million on “contain”.
Baroness Dido Harding said “a great proportion of the money” on local tracing, Councils to decide.
David Williams said, to Nov 2021 was £5.7b
fullfact.org/health/test-tr…

By the end of May 2021, it had sent out 691 million lateral flow tests, but results had been registered for only 96 million (14%) of them.
Has the low Test return rate been reflected in the costings?
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publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5802/cmse…

@covidinquiryuk Nov 2020, NHST&T committed to deliver £150 million inv in lab network, would provide NHS England with Legacy in terms of diagnostics capacity for future & certain diseases e.g cancer.
NHS England was unaware of this at time it was made.
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5802/cmse…

@covidinquiryuk Does anyone know if there were GDPR fines applied to Test and Trace?
If so how much?
If not, will these be later applied?
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@covidinquiryuk there appears to be #BillionsMissing
from just the £37billion #TestAndTrace budget, that's before below list of spending costs considered.
@OBR_UK Who's responsible for over allocations, costing, spending, residual funds?
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