MP Calls on PM to Explain Unfair Health Funding

Graham Stuart MP has accused the Prime Minister of avoiding answering questions on the unfair health funding in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
The Beverley and Holderness MP was called on by the Speaker to ask a question during Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons.

Graham asked the PM: “Health funding is skewed to younger, urban Labour voting areas at the expense of older, rural constituencies such as mine so that Hull receives £1,800 per head and the East Riding just £1,200. The PM knows that age rather than deprivation is the key driver of health need so why does he put Labour’s electoral interests ahead of the needs of the sick?”

But after Gordon Brown appeared simply to list a number of health projects happening across the whole of the Yorkshire and Humber region, Graham said:

“The PM avoided answering my question about unfair funding for healthcare in the East Riding. Instead he rattled out selected statistics for the whole of Yorkshire.

“It is clear that it is not a change in the voting system that we need, but a change of Government so the NHS is run for the benefit of the sick and not as an electoral aid for the Labour Party.”