HC Deb 20 July 2000 vol 354 c306W
10. Ms Drown

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the changes made to the level of NHS spending as a result of his Budget announcements. [130137]

Mr. Andrew Smith

In Budget 2000, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the biggest, most sustained growth in funding of any 4-year period in the history of the NHS, with annual average real terms growth of 6.1 per cent. in the UK, over double the rate achieved under the last Government. Table 5.1 in the Economic and Financial Strategy Report gives NHS spending plans.

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