Capital Finance

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 18 June 1991.

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Photo of Mr David Shaw Mr David Shaw , Dover 12:00, 18 June 1991

Will my right hon. Friend confirm that capital expenditure today is almost double what it fell to when Labour cut expenditure in 1977–78? Does he agree that there is much more machinery, equipment and electronics in the health service than there was before, and that we now have lithotripters and magnetic resonance imaging equipment, none of which existed under Labour in 1979?