NHS Cost

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 23 October 2012.

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Photo of Jeremy Hunt Jeremy Hunt The Secretary of State for Health 11:30, 23 October 2012

Let us look at some of the facts. The number of clinical staff in the NHS has gone up since the coalition came to power. The right hon. Gentleman talked about the cost of the reforms, which is about £1.6 billion. Thanks to those reforms, we will save £1.5 billion every single year from 2014 and the total savings in this Parliament will be £5.5 billion. Let me remind him that he left the NHS with £73 billion of private finance initiative debt, which costs the NHS £1.6 billion every single year. That money cannot be spent on patient care. He should be ashamed of that.