Re: Brexit Bus...
UK NHS budget:
2015/16 - £122bn
2016/17 - £122.8bn
2017/18 - £124.8bn
2018/19 - £126.7bn
2019/20 - £133.3bn
2020/21 - £137.1bn
In order to go up by your claimed £250/m a week the budget would have had to increase by £13bn in between the 2015/16 years and 2016/17 years (or, being more fogriving due to the vagaries of the differening reporting periods and other arbitrary dates, 2017/18). The difference between 2017/18 and 2015/16 is £2.8bn. That is often a below inflationary increase, let alone the £13bn that would be required to match your claimed "£250m/week since the referendum".
The Consumer Price Index has risen from 100 in 2015 to 107.8 in 2019, which is a 7.8% increase from 2015 compared to 2019. Taking the £122bn budget from 2015 and increasing it in line with this we get £131.5bn, compared to the £133.3bn for 2019/20 - therefore an increase beyond inflation over the five years of just £1.8bn which averages out over the whole period to £7m a week.
Please explain where your claim of "£250m/week since the referendum", requiring an instant uplift of £13bn in a single year and maintained from that year on, are represented in these numbers. Only by comparing the 2020/21 budget of £137.1bn with the 2015/16 budget of £122bn do we see an increase of higher than the required £13bn (£15.1bn increase over the period) but when inflation is factored in this is reduced to a mere £1.8bn increase over the period. Are you trying to claim that inflation based increases in expenditure, that should happen every year, are in fact "additional"?
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