Public Expenditure

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:44 pm on 14 July 2004.

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Photo of Kelvin Hopkins Kelvin Hopkins Labour, Luton North 4:44, 14 July 2004

On nursing, a chief executive of a hospital trust told me that if he could take the same global sum of money that he spends on nursing and pay a higher rate to all his nurses, he would have a full permanently employed nursing staff. He would not need to employ agency staff. Unfortunately, he is not able to do that, so he has to have a lower level of pay for his nurses and buy in agency nurses.