Claim: NHS Test and Trace cost £22 billion in just a few months.
Fact-check: We can't say if Test and Trace has cost more than the Channel Tunnel—yet - Full Fact
Verdict: this is not quite right. £22 billion is the budget allocated by the government for the first year of test and trace. £4 billion was spent up to the end of october. we don't yet know how much the whole first year will cost.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2021-02-24T00:00:00