Claim: Test and Trace is costing £22 billion.
Fact-check: Putting outsourced contact tracing spend in context - Full Fact
Verdict: the 2020/21 budget for test and trace in england is £22 billion, but only £4 billion was spent by the end of october 2020. most of this is spending on testing, rather than tracing.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2020-12-17T00:00:00