NHS Test and Trace boss Dido Harding has defended spending £1,000 a day on consultants. Baroness Dido Harding told the Commons Public Accounts Committee she felt it was "appropriate" to bring in external help in "extreme emergency circumstances" such as that faced by the country during the coronavirus crisis.
And David Williams, the Second Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care insisted private companies are not profiteering.
The top civil servant said the cost and effectiveness of work by consultants such as Deloitte on England’s test and trace scheme is closely monitored.
Asked if he was confident that there were no “super-profits” being made out of test and trace, Mr Williams told MPs on the Public Accounts
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