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St. Bartholomew's Hospital

: Taking the slide-rule approach to consider the future of Barts for a moment, does my hon. Friend appreciate that the current price of the cardiac and cancer care services that Barts provides for the east end and north of London is some £16 million? If Barts were redeveloped under the private finance initiative, that would be £20 million—an additional £4 million. To uncouple Barts from the London PFI would not make a dramatic difference, given the amount of money that we are using in any event. I would suggest that we need not turn our back on the PFI, even under the slide-rule test.