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Covid: NHS Test and Trace an ‘eye-watering’ waste of taxpayers’ money after £37 billion funding, report says (Photo illustration by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

NHS Test and Trace an ‘eye-watering’ waste of taxpayers’ money after £37 billion... Ethan Shone

12.6 billion PPE items are stored in the UK as central stock, which costs around £6.7 million per week (Photo: Getty Images)

Taxpayers will be paying costs of pandemic for decades - with Covid bill already... Claire Schofield

According to a new report, MPs say that there is “no clear evidence” that the Test and Trace scheme actually works (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Test and Trace scheme has had ‘no clear impact’ despite £37bn budget Rhona Shennan