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If that is not available through the national health service, they want to be able to buy it in from the private sector. That is quite understandable and I have some sympathy for that position.
At the moment, after the resources that are allocated to local government have been identified, the amount for new initiatives is top-sliced from that sum. The remaining sum is for core services.