The Labour Chancellor claimed NHS performance in Scotland was 'worse than in any part of the United Kingdom'.
Rachel Reeves has challenged SNP ministers to reduce NHS waiting times in Scotland after handing Holyrood a £3.4 billion spending boost.
"We’ve given £3.4 billion in the settlement to Scotland, which takes into account all of those pressures and the challenge now for the SNP in Scotland is to use that money wisely to start reducing waiting times," Reeves said today. “Talking to Scottish MPs yesterday in Parliament, this settlement was very welcome, the biggest settlement in the history of devolution.Reeves - who delivered the first Labour Budget since 2010 - insisted she had to make “difficult decisions” to address the £21.9 billion black hole she inherited from the Tories.
"But we had to make difficult decisions to raise the money so that we could reduce NHS waiting lists, so that we could build the homes that our country needs, so that we could give the settlement to Scotland yesterday, £3.4 billion, the biggest post-devolution settlement to Scotland in all of those years.”
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