Claim: You could fund the NHS for years, give every low-paid worker in Britain an above inflation pay rise and close every food bank in the UK just from the money wasted on PPE and NHS Test and Trace.
Fact-check: RMT exaggerates money 'wasted' on PPE and NHS Test and Trace - Full Fact
Verdict: this is not true. the total amount spent by the government on ppe and nhs test and trace during the pandemic was less than one year of nhs funding.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2022-06-22T00:00:00