Submitted on Friday 30th October 2020
Rejected on Friday 6th November 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Remove the Test, Trace, Isolate (TTI), programme from the private sector.
Remove the Test, Trace, Isolate (TTI), programme from the private sector. (Serco and it's sub-contractors), reclaim the Operation MoonShot £100b from Baroness Harding's department budget and send it to local authorities to expand their local health Test, Trace and Isolate programmes.
The TTI programmes initiated by the government and PHE , under the directions of Matt Hancock, and Baroness Harding, has never been up to standard and is becoming progressively worse day by day. The latest figures show that instead of reaching the 80% target of contacts they are barely hitting 60% and this figure is steadily falling. £100b from Operation MoonShot is better spent on local Test, Trace and Isolate initiatives.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
While private contractors are used to deliver the NHS Test and Trace service, it is a public sector service run by the National Institute for Health Protection. Additionally, while it has been reported that the Government plans to spend £100 billion on "Operation Moonshot", there is no evidence that this funding has already been allocated to the NHS Test and Trace service or the National Institute for Health Protection.
NHS Test and Trace already works with local authorities. On 10 August the contact tracing element of NHS Test and Trace was moved from central to local management, giving local councils’ public health teams more responsibility: www.gov.uk/government/news/nhs-test-and-trace-service-to-strengthen-regional-contact-tracing
We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Remove private companies from the Covid-19 NHS Test and Trace system: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/551648
Hold a public inquiry into spending on test and trace: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/555502
We could accept a petition calling on the Government to provide additional funding to local authorities to support local test and trace programmes, if that is what you want to happen.
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