Test and Trace consultants come under further scrutiny

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Entry 20 of 26. Section B: Industry-wide structural erosion. Back to the Dossier

Summary

The UK’s NHS Test and Trace program cost £37 billion without demonstrably reducing infection rates. Consultants were singled out as a specific driver of waste: Deloitte was paid roughly £1 million per day in fees, with individual consultants billed at up to £6,600 a day. The government then hired consultants (including Deloitte again) to help prepare its defense for the resulting public inquiry. As Private Eye noted: “consultants all the way down”.

Source description

The account rests on the finding of a UK parliamentary Public Accounts Committee.

Credibility assessment

Parliamentary committee findings provide strong evidentiary grounding. Under Rule 3, the definition of “waste” is critical: the £37 billion figure is the committee’s characterization, not the government’s. The circularity of hiring consultants to defend against criticism of consultants is a powerful symbolic detail.