Barnett Formula

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 12 June 2007.

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Photo of David Cairns David Cairns Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Scotland Office 2:30, 12 June 2007

In every constituency, in every part of every region and nation of this country, there has been a massive increase in public services: more schools, more doctors, more nurses. As it happens, investment in public spending in Scotland has increased in the past five years by 18 per cent., but in England it increased by 21 per cent., so there are higher rates of increase in England. As the hon. Gentleman has brought it up, I should point out that in his area there are 420 more teachers than in 1998, 163 more police officers and 62 police community support officers. In his NHS area, there are 6,886 more nurses, 725 more consultants, 353 more GPs and 548 more dentists—all on account of strong economic management by the Government—

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Ron Forrest
Posted on 13 Jun 2007 4:25 pm (Report this annotation)

This is not an answer to Mr Bone's question. The Government cannot go on ducking the effect of devolution on England. We are very soon going to have a Scottish Prime Minister from a Scottish constituency relying on Scottish votes to get his legislation on England through the UK parliament while much of Scottish legilsation is passed in Edinburgh with English politicians having no say in it - but with the bill being paid for by English and Welsh taxpayers.Is this democracy ?