“Accounts published by the Treasury show that NHS spending – the budget for the Department of Health – fell in real terms from £102.8 billion in 2009-10 to £102 billion in 2010-11.”
Mark Ferguson
Mark Ferguson is the Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and was the editor of LabourList from 2010 to 2015.
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