THE Government’s £37 billion test and trace system has been dubbed as a ‘failure’ by opposition parties in south Cumbria. The Prime Minister defended NHS Test and Trace, which could end up costing the taxpayer £37 billion, after MPs said there was “no clear evidence” it cut coronavirus infections. Councillor Iain Mooney Barrow and Furness CLP - lead member for Health and Wellbeing said: It is clear from the findings released today that the Tory Party s failed £37bn test and trace system has wasted billions of pounds of taxpayers money. They have handed their party supporters huge contracts to provide a system that has woefully let down the public,