“What assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the value for money of housing asylum seekers at RAF Scampton.”
Asked by
Sir Edward Leigh
Answering Minister
the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Answer from Hansard
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (James Murray)
The spending review 2025 provided record investment in the NHS, including the largest ever health capital budget. That investment has enabled a reduction in waiting lists of 230,000, with an extra 5.2 million NHS appointments. At autumn Budget 2025, the Chancellor protected NHS investment by allowing it to retain and reinvest efficiency savings in 2028-29, as well as making available up-front funding to abolish NHS England: a move that will unlock £1 billion in savings by the end of the Parliament, which can instead be used to support frontline care.