Last month a National Audit Office report revealed that problems inimplementing the 150m programme meant the number of under-25stested was well below its target.
Annual testing rates of at least 26 per cent of young people are neededto reduce levels of chlamydia in the community but only half of primarycare trusts reached that level in 2008/09, six years after the campaignlaunched.
The House of Commons public accounts committee, which met last week,found that the programme was not implemented successfully with a hugedisparity in the cost of treatment across different regions.
Edward Leigh, chair of the public accounts committee, told Sir HughTaylor, permanent secretary of the department of health, that theprogramme has been "a failure".
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