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Autumn Budget Live: Rachel Reeves Raises Taxes By £40bn And Increases Spending On NHS And Schools

Reeves announces £22.6bn increase in day-to-day health spendingReeves ends with an announcement about investment in the NHS.

She says day-to-day health spending will rise by £22.6bn, and capital spending by £3.1bn, this year and next year.

She goes on:

So today, because of the difficult decisions that I have taken on tax, welfare and spending, I can announce that I am providing a £22.6bn pound increase in the day to day health budget.

Let me set out what this funding is delivering. Many NHS buildings have been left in a state of disrepair. So we will provide £1bn pounds of health capital investment next year to address the backlog of repairs and upgrades across our NHS to increase capacity for tens of thousands more procedures.

Next, we will provide a further £1.5bn pounds for new beds in hospitals across our country, new capacity for over a million additional diagnostic tests and new surgical hubs and diagnostic centres so that people waiting for their treatment can get it as quickly as possible.

The health secretary will be setting out further details of his review into the new hospital program in the coming weeks and publishing in the new year. But I can tell the house today that work will continue at pace to deliver those seven hospitals affected by the Raac crisis …

And finally, because of this record injection of funding, because of the thousands of additional beds that we have secured, and because of the reforms that we are delivering in our NHS, we can now begin to bring waiting lists down more quickly and move towards our target for waiting times to be no longer than 18 weeks by delivering on our manifesto commitment for 40,000 extra hospital appointments a week.

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