There is no clear evidence that England’s costly test-and-trace system has been effective in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, the British parliament’s Public Accounts Committee said on Wednesday. Prime Minister Boris Johnson last year promised a world-beating test-and-trace system as part of the route out of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic. But the parliamentary committee questioned if the NHS Test and Trace Service (NHST&T) has been good value for money despite its “striking” scale. The service was allocated £37 billion ($51 billion) over two years, and had spent £5.7 billion ($7.9 billion) by November 2020, the committee said in its latest report. “The Department of Health & Social Care justified the scale of investment, in part, on the basis that an effective test and trace system would help avoid a second national lockdown; but since its creation we have had two more lockdowns,” the report stated. “There is still …