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NHS Deficits

When one questions, probes and pulls at Conservative party policy, it is interesting to see just how defensive Opposition Members become. They realise that the consequence of the policy of allocating resources according to the burden of disease, as stated in the policy document issued at last year’s Conservative party conference, if the hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness remembers that, is to take more money out of his hon. Friends’ constituencies. All the bleating that we hear about the funding formula does not fit with the Opposition’s party policy on the allocation of health resources. On top of that, money will be taken from the health budget by pursuing the policy—