Failed Covid Contracts

Beyond reckless

On June 2, the UK’s HM Treasury published, to little media attention, a report revealing the multibillion-pound price British taxpayers paid for the reckless handling of Covid contracts.

Failed pandemic PPE contracts cost £1.4 billion: the government revealed the price the British public paid for undelivered agreements, which saw taxpayer cash squandered on unusable PPE.

The pandemic waste was on another scale: we could have discussed the 900 consultants who charged £1,000 daily to deliver the test and trace service; the nearly £1.2 billion spent in two and a half years on stockpiling unused antivirals, or the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee report showing that of the £12bn spent on PPE in 2020-21, £9bn was wasted due to inflated prices or shoddy equipment.were

As no one seems interested in where the billions went, the TTE office looked into the Government’s Contracts Finder, which allows you to search for information about contracts worth over £12,000 with the government and…