Comprehensive Spending Review

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 29 March 2007.

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Photo of Stephen Timms Stephen Timms The Chief Secretary to the Treasury 10:30, 29 March 2007

I certainly will. I can confirm that there are now 33,000 more doctors and 85,000 more nurses, and that we have undertaken the biggest hospital building programme in the history of the NHS, involving 157 major new hospital schemes since 1997. There are now 80 NHS walk-in centres, compared with none in 1997. We are absolutely determined to build on that further. I know that my hon. Friend will pass on to his constituents the fact that, if the Conservatives were able to—