See NZ and Australia.Slightly off topic but do you think a test and trace system could ever work properly?
Nope. Its not £22 Billion as you should well know.Yes. Really . Staggering
Reuters saying total cost of test and trace in the UK will be 22 billion for this financial year.Nope. Its not £22 Billion as you should well know.
The budget is 22 - as at October they had spent less than 4Reuters saying total cost of test and trace in the UK will be 22 billion for this financial year.
IncorrectTest and Trace Comparisons - cost per person:
England - £393
Ireland - £92
Have you been tested or anyone you know?Well fuck knows where that's going then
They could'nt test and trace a microchipped dog
Nope. Its not £22 Billion as you should well know.
See my earlier post. I agreed that the BUDGET. That's the BUDGET was 22 Billion.5. Until that point, the government must rely on other tools to suppress the virus. The government will build upon the pilots in Liverpool and Merthyr Tydfil with wider community testing, allowing us to identify and isolate people who do not have symptoms but are unintentionally spreading the virus. In addition, the government will roll-out rapid testing nationally to NHS front-line staff, social care and other high-risk or critical settings. This strategy is backed by an additional £7 billion for NHS Test and Trace to increase testing and continue to improve contact tracing, taking the overall funding provided for Test and Trace this financial year to £22 billion.
Look, all i did was post a portion from the UK goverment covid plan, which confirmed that £22b had been allocated for test and trace, none of us will know what the final cost will be until this is over.See my earlier post. I agreed that the BUDGET. That's the BUDGET was 22 Billion.
They haven't 'spent' 22 Billion and is hasnt ' been given to their mates'. That's the point that I am challenging.
The issue is that it is clear that many on here think SERCO or some other private sector body got 22 billion for the app and the tracking down of potentially infected. In FACT, the money has been BUDGETED to a number of organisations including many in the PUBLIC SECTOR including the sanctified NHS to provide a range of services. Qi am more than happy to debate the merits of the programme but we need to start from the point of knowing JUST EXACTLY WTF IT IS me thinks
Or better still just get you facts from Terry the plumber on Facebook cos he knows everything
FFS.
Look, all i did was post a portion from the UK goverment covid plan, which confirmed that £22b had been allocated for test and trace, none of us will know what the final cost will be until this is over.
Its worth noting that as of the 13th November £12b had been spent on T&T only, with a further unspecified amout spent elsewhere.
The head of Test and Trace, Dido Harding, said in a parliamentary select committee this week that around 80% of that £12 billion is spent on testing, with the remainder spent on tracing, technology and central support functions.
Contact tracing in England comprises both national contact tracing carried out by Serco, Sitel and staff from NHS Professionals, and local contact tracing by Public Health England (PHE) local health teams. The local work is funded from a different budget, separate to the £12 billion.
Maybe you're right on contracts for their mates, but ....
An interim study by the National Audit Office (NAO) found that Test and Trace spent a total of £5bn on 121 contracts that were awarded directly, without competitive tender, using emergency regulations which allowed the government to bypass normal procurement rules.
A further £1.4bn was spent on contracts awarded under "framework agreements", which allows the government to make deals with pre-selected suppliers.
See my earlier post. I agreed that the BUDGET. That's the BUDGET was 22 Billion.
They haven't 'spent' 22 Billion and is hasnt ' been given to their mates'. That's the point that I am challenging.
The issue is that it is clear that many on here think SERCO or some other private sector body got 22 billion for the app and the tracking down of potentially infected. In FACT, the money has been BUDGETED to a number of organisations including many in the PUBLIC SECTOR including the sanctified NHS to provide a range of services. Qi am more than happy to debate the merits of the programme but we need to start from the point of knowing JUST EXACTLY WTF IT IS me thinks
Or better still just get you facts from Terry the plumber on Facebook cos he knows everything
FFS.
It is clear that it is you that are confused by what Track and Trace is. As I have said it is more than the app and tracking people down but I suspect you think that's all it is.Pen4 mixing up track n trace 22billion budget with the PPE scandal, which is the one where contracts have been given to many 'well connected'
suppliers. Some of these have been found to be either not up to standard or not even supplied. And these contracts are in addition to the 22 Billion
The track and Trace issue is the 22 Billion budget to cover a system that is woefully underperforming, in many cases doesn't work and it is the cost of it compared to other countries, more effective, efforts. Trying to start it up using a new system and ignoring already effective technology before giving up and using the already established technology anyhow cost a lot of time and the ensuing disarray last Spring/Summer
Either of the above shows a level of incompetence to be expected from a single issue party winning a General Election.
Shrugs .....
Fact is budget for T n T is 22 Billion and it doesn't work as it was promised in the spring (World beating)
Fact is you were conflating PPE misappropriation of funds with T n T
But that's ok