Taxpayers will pay the price of Covid for decades to come with the cost of Government measures already surpassing £370 billion, MPs have warned. The PAC said the taxpayer would be exposed to 'significant financial risks for decades to come' - putting the Covid bill to date at £372 billion. The committee also 'remains concerned that despite spending over £10 billion on supplies, the PPE stockpile is not fit for purpose'. A promised public inquiry into the pandemic is not expected to start until spring next year, and will likely be long-running. 'The public inquiry must start immediately and the inquiry must have full access to all ministerial correspondence, contracts and documents, including all government business carried out on personal email accounts.'

Source: Daily Mail July 25, 2021 01:16 UTC