Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 25 October 2005.
Jane Kennedy
Minister of State, Department of Health
2:30,
25 October 2005
The right hon. Gentleman asks a detailed question, and with my mental arithmetic not being as good as it should be, I will get back to him on the detail. His general point, however, is important. We decided to agree those new contracts and pay the salaries that go with them precisely because we needed to retain really good people in the health service. That is what the whole process was about.