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Health Capital budget slashed, but only in England not Scotland and Wales

The link is to a cut in the NHS capital budget. Devolution to Scotland and Wales may mean that the devolved assemblies need to work out where to apply capital budget cuts, but the Barnett Formula (and he is still around I saw him about a week ago) implies that the same reduction should be applied to them.

In any event cutting the budget by a third quite clearly qualifies to be called a "slash".

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