Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Rupa Huq and Jeremy Hunt

Tuesday 22nd March 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Hunt]

Under this Government, staff levels have actually risen: we have 11,000 more doctors and 12,000 more nurses. If the hon. Lady is worried about NHS funding, perhaps she might look in the mirror, because in 2010 her party wanted to cut funding to the NHS—in Wales, it actually did cut it—and in 2015 it wanted £5.5 billion less than the Conservatives. The NHS does not need Labour rhetoric; it needs more doctors and more nurses, which we can have only on the back of the strong economy that only the Conservatives can deliver.

[Dr Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton) (Lab)]

10. What recent assessment he has made of staff morale in the NHS.