Government has paid private firms £6.5BILLION during COVID crisis as services struggled

Government has paid private firms £6.5BILLION during COVID crisis – including £500,000 to test-and-trace disaster Baroness Dido Harding’s ex consultancy – as services struggled to cope The analysis shows 1,262 contracts handed out to date, worth £6.61billion Some £2.6billion of contracts were handed out in June alone, they show Figures collected by Tussell, a database … Read more