7. Plaid Cymru Debate: NHS Performance

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:45 pm on 29 January 2020.

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Photo of Mr Neil Hamilton Mr Neil Hamilton UKIP 5:45, 29 January 2020

It's as though the financial crisis of 2010-11 had never happened. In one sense, Members are right, of course, that the NHS is underfunded everywhere. It does have to compete, given that it is a nationalised monolith, every year, when there's the budget and Government spending round. It has to compete with all the other spending priorities that Governments have. Therefore, it is bound to be underfunded to all eternity, compared with the needs that it has to deal with. What really matters is how well you use the money that you have got. And I'm afraid that, if we are to judge devolution by its results, we have to conclude that devolution has failed.