Nick Robinson
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34 appearances
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first heard Jan 2015
last heard Jan 2015
Nick Robinson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Not a bit of it when you looked at it.
Two billion in the baseline of the NHS spending is just two billion.
It doesn't become eight magically unless you add
In real terms, another two billion.
And then on top of that, another two and another two to reach your eight.
But it gave the impression, didn't it, that, well, not to you, of course, Tim, because you know about numbers, but it gave the impression to a lot of people that he'd magically found this two billion quid and that sort of solved the problem.
Well, it really doesn't.
And indeed, when you looked a bit closer at the two billion, it wasn't quite what it seemed.
So a headline largely in London-based papers about two billion said,
Turns out to be quite a lot of that money is going to Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland.
So for the English NHS, it's £1.7 billion.
When you looked again, you discovered that just a bit under half of that £750 million was coming from within the existing budget for the Department of Health.
Switched, yes, to the NHS, away from back office, but nevertheless from the budget we would think of as going to health.
So the actual amount of new money wasn't that much at all.
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