. - last april, the milton keynes lab, which is run by a not—for—profit company called uk biocentre, rus lighthouse lab. hi, folks. i'm here at the milton keynes mega lab, where they're doing the most phenomenal amount of testing, which is absolutely essential for our ability to defeat the virus. after the pandemic started, the government moved to ramp up the uk's community testing capacity. milton keynes is one of seven lighthouse labs brought on stream by number 10. nearly £6 billion has been set aside for them. more than £1 billion has been spent so far. when milton keynes began testing for coronavirus, academics from universities across the country offered their help. i was a small part of this tremendous team that established from nothing that i think generated a truly miraculous outcome. when i left in — last year, the standards were still extraordinary and they still had a real focus — there were individuals, particularly from oxford university, who had a real focus on quality. they were absolutely relentless that every sample would get tested and every sample would get put thr