Health Budget 2015-16 (Priorities)

Part of the debate – in the Scottish Parliament at on 19 November 2014.

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Photo of Alex Neil Alex Neil Scottish National Party

As the member knows, we have passed on every penny that has been passed on to us for revenue spending in the health service. On top of doing that, we announced when Mr Swinney announced his budget a few weeks ago that we are putting an extra £80 million into the health budget for next year.

On the capital side, despite the massive cuts to our capital budget—25 per cent overall—that Westminster has made, the notional value on an annualised basis of the non-profit-distributing and hub projects for next year is more than £300 million.

By any stretch of the imagination, given the very tight budget that we are working to, we are devoting every penny available to our national health service.