Urgent call for independent investigation into Covid spending after billions of taxpayers cash used on pandemic contracts

Urgent call for independent investigation into Covid spending after billions of taxpayers cash used on pandemic contracts

Billions of pounds were handed out in high-value pandemic contracts with minimal scrutiny, a fresh analysis of Covid spending has found - sparking urgent calls for an independent investigation.The findings come from the first academic review of more than 1,000 Covid-related government contracts worth over £1 million each, carried out by Professors Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson at Oxford University’s Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine.Their rev…

UK government’s reckless handling of covid contracts has cost the taxpayer dearly

The UK government's handling of covid contracts resulted in significant waste, with £1.4 billion lost on undelivered PPE contracts and £9 billion wasted on PPE due to inflated prices or shoddy equipment. Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr. Tom Jefferson are looking into individual contracts to expose the reckless handling of covid contracts at taxpayers’ expense.