"Mr Speaker, Our public spending plans deliver on the priorities of
the British people. Today’s Spending Review honours our historic,
multi-year commitment to the NHS. Next year, the core health budget
will grow by £6.6bn, allowing us to deliver 50,000 more nurses and
50 million more general practice appointments. And we’re increasing
capital investment by £2.3bn to: Invest in new technologies to
improve patient and staff experience… Replace ageing diagnostic
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"Mr Speaker, Our public spending plans deliver on the priorities of
the British people. Today’s Spending Review honours our historic,
multi-year commitment to the NHS. Next year, the core health budget
will grow by £6.6bn, allowing us to deliver 50,000 more nurses and
50 million more general practice appointments. And we’re increasing
capital investment by £2.3bn to: Invest in new technologies to
improve patient and staff experience… Replace ageing diagnostic
machines like MRI and CT scanners… And fund the biggest hospital
building programme in a generation - building 40 new hospitals and
upgrading 70 more.
We’re investing in social care, too. Today’s settlement allows
Local Authorities to increase their core spending power by 4.5%.
Local authorities will have extra flexibility for Council Tax and
the Adult Social Care precept… …which together with £300m of new
grant funding… …gives them access to an extra £1bn to fund social
care. And this is on top of the extra £1bn social care grant we
provided this year, which I can confirm will be maintained into
next year."
