Derek Twigg
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NHS Funding
Derek Twigg Excerpts(8 years, 1 month ago)
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Mr Speaker
I would like to conclude these exchanges by 4.30 pm because there is other pressing business. If people take a long time, they are preventing their colleagues from contributing. I am sorry, but it is as simple as that.
Derek Twigg (Halton) (Lab)
Does the Secretary of State believe that there is a need for additional funding for adult social care over and above that which has been already allocated?
Mr Hunt
We are putting extra money into adult social care, and local authorities have the ability to increase their funding to adult social care through the new precept. In an ideal world, everyone would like more money to go into the NHS and social care system, but Government Members know that those systems are powered by a strong economy and that we can increase our budget only at a rate that the economy can afford. The past six years show that if we take care of the economy, we can increase the NHS and social care budget, and that is what we are doing.