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Mr. Kennedy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the real terms increase in health expenditure since June 1987.
Mr. Dorrell
Expenditure information is available only for financial years. Planned expenditure for the NHS (England) in 1990–91 is £23.5 billion. This will mean a real terms increase since 1987–88 of 9.7 per cent.