Randox were awarded over £500m in Covid contracts without a tender or an open process - including a £347m contract after failing to deliver on a previous £133m contract. Let's call this what it is - corruption."
Source: The Guardian.
That works out at about £500 per UK resident, and perhaps twice as much per income tax payer (or about the same as the American stimulus of April 2020). My guess is that many working on the Test and Trousered programme were idealists who volunteered. It still helped cripple the economy while enriching a few.
Billions could have been saved if the NHS had been properly funded going into this crisis. But the Tories are ideologically opposed to the NHS and believe in never wasting a crisis. The Covid crisis is the best opportunity they have ever had of destroying the NHS as a functioning national system.