Serco responds to Test and Trace critics claiming the system has been a 'triumph'

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Gabriel Pogrund, was sent to Labour MP Stella Creasy to outline how Serco's involvement has been delivered successully. He wrote: "Setting up the mobile testing sites has been a logistical triumph; from a standing start at the end of March, there are now some 500 permanent test sites and 249 mobile test sites in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland."Serco is responsible for about 25% of these and have successfully conducted around 1.6 million of the 5.2 million tests delivered through this channel since 24th March."He goes on to explain that the problem with people unable to book tests is not down to Serco test sites, but the laboratories being unable to keep up with demand.He added: "The recent problems stem not from the test.