Health Funding

Baroness Masham of Ilton Excerpts
Thursday 9th July 2015

(8 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Prior of Brampton Portrait Lord Prior of Brampton
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I repeat my earlier response that prevention is extremely important. We are looking at a relatively small reduction of £200 million out of a total public health budget of more than £5 billion.

Baroness Masham of Ilton Portrait Baroness Masham of Ilton (CB)
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My Lords, does this mean that campaigns on alcohol and drug abuse will be cut? Is the Minister aware that there is a great increase in liver disease and hepatitis C?

Lord Prior of Brampton Portrait Lord Prior of Brampton
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The decisions about which services to reduce must lie with local authorities.