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HANSARDHealth and Social CareI disagree vehemently with what the hon. Lady says because the economy is coming back much more strongly than many predicted, including the Office for Budget Responsibility, which…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareThe right hon. Gentleman is a formidable campaigner for his constituents, but I believe that these measures do serve them. This plan is progressive; the burden falls most heavily…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareMy hon. Friend is completely right. One of the things that we are bringing in today is the housing and innovation fund, to ensure that we care for people in the right settings.…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareI do agree with that general proposition, but in the current circumstances, after 18 months in which it has been necessary for the Government to perform the most enormous fiscal…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareGood luck with that one. That is all I can say to the hon. Gentleman. What the people of Scotland and the whole of the UK are getting is £2.2 billion more across the whole of the…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareYes, and I thank my right hon. Friend for his support; he knows a great deal about this subject from many points of view. It is certainly right to bring in the measures that will…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareThe NHS is a UK institution and we are all proud of it, and we are proud of what NHS Scotland does as well. The right hon. Gentleman is completely wrong in what he says about…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareI think the whole country understands that we have been through a pandemic that obliged the Treasury to spend £407 billion on protecting people, jobs and livelihoods by furlough…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareYes. Not only will it go to frontline services and to beating waiting lists, but we will make sure that this money—this massive, unprecedented investment—is accompanied by the…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareIt would be a great thing if the Labour party would support what we are doing. With the package we have brought forward, we will be able to fix that backlog even faster. If the…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareWith the PFI contracts and the endless borrowing that Labour instituted, hospitals up and down the country are paying the price for the approach advocated by the last Labour…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareI thank my hon. Friend for his thoughtful question. We looked at all those models of course, Mr Speaker, as you can imagine. I think that the problem is that we need to go for an…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareThe hon. Member makes an exceptionally important point. In addition to the £6 billion that we put into supporting local government throughout the pandemic, we are putting more in…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareMy right hon. Friend knows exactly what he is talking about, because he is a former GP who has seen these issues at the frontline. With this measure, we are not only investing in…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareI leave it to the hon. Lady to speculate on that time, but it is very bizarre that yet again the Scottish nationalists—I think she is a Scottish nationalist—seem to be rejecting…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareWhat I say to the hon. Member is that, frankly, she should take that up with the former leaders of the Labour party, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and all the former Ministers…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareI thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution. At least he has the guts, unlike the leader of his party, to say that he would tax people in this country to the tune of £12…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareI can certainly confirm that Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will be getting an increment. There will be a Union dividend in the way that I described, but clearly it is up to…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareThat was brilliantly and succinctly put. Does the SNP want the money or not? Do the people of Scotland want investment in their healthcare and social care or not? There is more…07 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareThe hon. Lady is completely right to draw attention to the suffering of people throughout the pandemic, particularly in care homes, including the mental stress they have suffered…07 Sept 2021