Minister Robs Peter To Pay Paul Only To Rob Paul To Pay Peter Back – Burstow

7.06.00am GMT Thu 28th Nov 2002

Commenting on the announcement by Alan Milburn that he will strip £100m out from NHS budgets to give to social services so that they can pay the fines set in the Delayed Discharge Bill, Liberal Democrat Spokesman on Older People Paul Burstow MP said:

"Alan Milburn knows that this whole Bill is a farce, and now he intends to give social services £100millon of NHS money and then put a fining system in place for social services to be forced to pay it all back again.

"Ministers are now robbing Peter to pay Paul, only to rob Paul to pay Peter back. It makes no sense fails to provide vulnerable older people with the dignity they deserve. It is time that Milburn wakes up to the reality of stark underfunding and tackle the causes of delayed discharge rather than the symptoms. The government needs to put this Bill on the scrap heap and go back to the drawing board."

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