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• Scotland to spend extra £1bn on health by raising taxes on higher earners

  15-12-2022 19:14
  Scottish government promises to tackle health and social care crisis to protect weakest and poorestUK politics live – latest news updatesThe Scottish government has promised to spend another £1bn on tackling the crisis in health and social care by raising taxes on higher earners and holiday homes.John Swinney, Scotland’s acting finance secretary, said the burden of increasing NHS funding would fall heavily on everyone earning more than £43,663 in Scotland as part of a &ld
  
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• Health expert Jeremy Hunt knew how to fix social care. Why is chancellor Jeremy Hunt not doing so? | Polly Toynbee

  15-12-2022 18:21
  As chair of the health select committee he wrote a bold and sensible report. He now seems to have forgotten what was in itStrikes add to the crisis the NHS faces. It’s been the nurses today, ambulance staff next week. Of course they can be resolved, as can all public pay claims, in this case for the cost of some £13bn to match the full 11.1% peak inflation, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ (IFS) Ben Zaranko (though unions don’t really expect this amount). Th
  
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