Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) combined value and (b) duration is of the contracts the Government has with private contractors to run covid-19 drive through testing centres.
The Government has established a multitude of partnerships with industry, academia, local government and others to deliver its testing programme and many of the contracts span multiple disciplines, making a total cost for providing testing services difficult to articulate. Many are subject to confidential commercial agreements that would preclude the Department from disclosing them publicly
All the Department’s contracts are, or will be, published on GOV.UK’s Contract Finder service.