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Royal Leamington Spa, Warwick, Kenilworth

03/04/2022

19/09/2020

Serco is the company our government are paying to run the UK’s Covid19 testing system. It has utterly failed in its task. Seven months into this pandemic, the UK lags woefully behind all other developed nations on the availability of testing, the accuracy of test results, the transparency and accuracy of the government’s own testing data and the turn-around time of between requiring a test, and receiving test results.

Just last year, Serco were fined £19.2m for serious fraud and false accounting. It’s CEO, Rupert Soames (brother of conservative politician Nicholas Soames) is Conservative PM Winston Churchill’s grandson. Serco has donated to the Conservative Party and it’s politicians many times over the years.

After the Paradise Pspers revelations of 2017, Serco was listed as a ‘high-risk client with a history of failures’ by offshore law firm Appleby. The firm said the company faced allegations of ‘fraud’, ‘the cover-up of the abuse of detainees’, and the ‘mishandling of radioactive waste.’

In 2014 it was revealed that Serco had charged the taxpayer to monitor released prisoners who were either *dead* or *still in jail*, which led to an initial fine of nearly £70m and scores of negative headlines.

In May 2020, Serco accidentally shared the personal email addresses of nearly 300 trainee COVID-19 contact tracers.

Serco receives 40% of its funding from the UK taxpayer for government contracts it continues to win, despite these shady practices (we only skimmed the surface here).

For those concerned about the economy - these testing delays have a knock on effect there too, keeping workers and parents out of play while they attempt to source tests for themselves or their family members.

Local public health leaders have proved they are more successful in tracing the contacts of infected people, yet the government insists on using a centralized system run by a company whose ability to contact trace is mocked by its own CEO.