NHS and Social Care Funding

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 2:40 pm on 11 January 2017.

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Photo of Toby Perkins Toby Perkins Labour, Chesterfield 2:40, 11 January 2017

The hon. Lady is right to say that we have an ageing population but that is predictable. Does she think it is also significant that in 2008 the UK was spending about the same as all the major EU nations, whereas the OECD now says that we are spending considerably less than most of the other major nations? Is that not actually causing this problem?