Last year the British government spent almost 1.5 billion pounds to combat swine flu. But when it turned out the scale of the pandemic had been over-estimated, the country was left with a huge stockpile of unused drugs.
Despite this, a new report says the UK’s response to the outbreak was "proportionate and effective".
Mathew Sinclair, a research director at the Taxpayers' Alliance said that “the vast amounts were wasted because some of the contracts didn’t have proper break clauses in them.”