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John Prescott's proposals were still on balance sheet, whereas the SNP is trying to get around that. Is it not also true that every increase in housing expenditure that John Prescott gets out of Gordon Brown, we get through the Barnett formula?
We have a history of objecting to that without getting to the bottom of the matter. We raised it in our cross-examination of Mr Mitchell but we did not get a satisfactory answer.
When the pressure of work meant that something had to give, as is always the case in the NHS, it was always the health promotion activity that went. Such activity is no less important than reactive health activity, but it is less immediately urgent.