BBC Question Time: Minister Confronted With Damning Graph On NHS Funding

BBC question time Presenter Fiona Bruce He said a Conservative claim about record NHS spending “doesn’t look good” after a minister was confronted with a damning graph.

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Bruce introduced the Minister of Health I will quince With a chart using IFS data showing that NHS spending between 1955-56 and 2019-20 increased by an average of 4% – but the annual rise was less than that for all but one year since 2010.

Bruce said: “Let’s look at a graph that looks at NHS funding. This graph will show you the difference between the funding levels for the NHS prior to the Conservative government’s election and the current level.

“You see, if you look at the average there, it’s very dramatic in terms of the decline in funding. So when you talk about benchmark investing, it doesn’t look very good.”

Quince responded by not addressing the point in the graph—that health spending rose by a greater percentage in working years—but by saying “we’re spending more on health and social care now than at any other time in our country’s history.”

Bruce continued by saying that while the average increase was 3%, it’s closer at 1.6% when you look at it.

But Quince insisted: “If you take, for example, 2010, we spent about £100 billion on the NHS. By 2025 it’s going to be £166 billion.

“And if we look at the difficult times, for example when we emerged from 2008-09’s economic crisis, the coalition government, even though it had to make spending cuts elsewhere in order to prioritize the NHS.

It is not clear what research was done by the prestigious thinktank that the graph refers. But one study Not including the latest annual figure, state spending increased 6% annually during the Blair-Brown years, fell to 1% under the Coalition, and was as high as 1.6% under the Conservative government through 2018-2019.

However, the numbers were captured by many followers.

The IFS report said: “UK health spending increased in real terms at an annual average of 3.6% per annum between 1949-50 and 2018-19.

The spending increased sharply during 2000-2000, when it grew at 6% per year during the Blair and Brown administrations. This was part of larger increases in spending on public services.

Since 2009-2010, the growth in health spending has slowed dramatically. Between 2009-10 and 2018-19 real spending grew an average annual rate 1.3% between 2009-10 to 2018-19. The average annual increase of 1% under the coalition government (2009-10 – 2014-15) was the lowest of any five-year average for any government.

These increases occurred in a period when most areas of public expenditure experienced significant declines. Spending on education, defense, public order, safety, and health have all fallen while spending on the latter has continued to increase, though at a slower pace than in the past.