Labour health ministers used private cars to drive themselves approximately 472 miles on official business in 1997-98, reclaiming £189 in mileage expenses. In 1998-99 no mileage expenses were claimed, suggesting the ministerial team were chauffeur driven to all official business.
(Hansard, 29 November, column 65)
The chancellor has promised an increase in planned spending on NHS staff development, which he says will pay for £1,000 “personal development budgets” for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals.
The Labour party would ensure work visas for anyone who has a job offer in the NHS “at whatever level”, shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth announced today.
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