Karl Turner MP claimed the government “blew” £37bn on the Track and Trace app. We've written before that this isn’t true, as the figure refers to the 2 year budget for the whole programme. The app cost £35m in year one. He’s since tweeted a correction.
The governmentThe most recent figures produced by the
show that, as of the June 2022 update, £25.7 billion had reportedly been spent on NHS Test and Trace as a whole, with an estimated lifetime cost of £29.3 billion.by the NAO showed that in 2020/21, the vast majority of the £13.5 billion was accounted for by testing . A comparatively small amount—£35 million—was spent on the app over the same period.
It should be noted that the NAO breakdown of spending only covers the first year of the pandemic. Comparable figures for 2021/22 have not yet been published, and it appears that the NAO is
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