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Deloitte’s COVID ‘bonanza’: this is how much the British public has paid so far

The government has given the giant firm £40m to oversee 'failing' Test and Trace – with no sign of any contract. So just what are they doing for the money?

By Caroline Molloy
Deloitte’s COVID ‘bonanza’: this is how much the British public has paid so far
Coronavirus drive-through test site. | Jonathan Brady/PA Archive/PA Images
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The Department of Health handed £38.8 million to accountancy firm Deloitte in July this year, for unspecified “services” relating to Test and Trace, new figures reveal.

This is the first time we’ve known how much Deloitte is being paid for its work on the “failing” Test and Trace system.

The payments are separate from the £22 million of Deloitte COVID contracts published by the government so far – which involve other, unrelated COVID work such as sourcing ventilators and Personal Protective Equipment.

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