credit taper in, many people being able to keep more money, the scrapping of the public pay freeze, the. all these things impact on the. all these things impact on the cost of living, but they are telling us they still don t feel levelled up. they need to help will be people who have helped us out during this pandemic, they need some more money for what pandemic, they need some more money for what they pandemic, they need some more money for what they doing because they don t for what they doing because they don t get for what they doing because they don t get paid enough. that is the bottom don t get paid enough. that is the bottom line. and they have been stood bottom line. and they have been stood on bottom line. and they have been stood on for quite awhile. i bottom line. and they have been stood on for quite awhile.- stood on for quite awhile. i think it is probably stood on for quite awhile. i think it is probably good stood on for quite awhile. i think it is pr
here s our health correspondent, dominic hughes. the performance of the test and trace programme in england has been under scrutiny for months. this assessment by mp5 could hardly be more damning. the public accounts committee which examines value for money of government projects says the programme s outcomes have been muddled, and it hasn t achieved a number of its main objectives, despite costing the taxpayer millions. the nhs test and trace programme has been one of the most expensive health programmes delivered during the pandemic. it has cost £37 billion over two years, equal to nearly a fifth of the entire nhs england budget. when it comes to test results, just 14% of 691 million lateral flow tests distributed by test and trace were registered. and in periods of pressure, like december 2020, just 17% of people were receiving test results within 24 hours. we found it very difficult to see what it had achieved for the 37 billion.
years hence? yes, to be fair, the pandemic has proved things i years hence? yes, to be fair, the pandemic has proved things to i years hence? yes, to be fair, the| pandemic has proved things to be years hence? yes, to be fair, the i pandemic has proved things to be in disorder. pandemic has proved things to be in disorder. if pandemic has proved things to be in disorder, if you like, for the chancellor. he been able to follow the plans chancellor. he been able to follow the plans envisage. there was going to be the plans envisage. there was going to be a the plans envisage. there was going to be a budget only once a year and now we re to be a budget only once a year and now we re having a few changes just because now we re having a few changes just because so now we re having a few changes just because so much has changed and also we had because so much has changed and also we had some because so much has changed and also we had some of the budget and the review we ha
suppose, but things like the bills will go up suppose, but things like the bills will go up and it is going to affect me eventually, isn t it? now, we have been talking to lots of small businesses here as well, so just a quick word about that rise in the national minimum wage. all the people we talked to today support that, but it does have a significant knock on effect, for example one business we talked to who just have one employee, well, that rise in the minimum wage could add more than £1000 to what they have to pay out every single year and of course that has to be found from what they re managing to trade at the moment and they say they are still not back to pre pandemic levels and that that was an overarching theme as well, that their recovery from the pandemic has onlyjust begun and they need that support to continue. i use iusea i use a lot of wholesale fruit and ve l i use a lot of wholesale fruit and veg and i use a lot of wholesale fruit and veg and that is slowly cre
personally. if great deal of difference to me, personally- great deal of difference to me, personally. if you re going to be willini to personally. if you re going to be willing to put personally. if you re going to be willing to put the personally. if you re going to be willing to put the hours - personally. if you re going to be willing to put the hours and, - personally. if you re going to be| willing to put the hours and, like personally. if you re going to be l willing to put the hours and, like i am, willing to put the hours and, like i am. then willing to put the hours and, like i am. then you re willing to put the hours and, like i am, then you re going willing to put the hours and, like i am, then you re going to - willing to put the hours and, like i am, then you re going to benefit i am, then you re going to benefit from am, then you re going to benefit from it am, then you re going to benefit from it if am, then you re going to benefit from it. if you re am