Yvette Cooper, the health secretary, has said her officials are “extremely excited” about one of the more obscure, but potentially most significant, changes in last week’s budget – the creation of a new category of “preventative” spending. Internal government spending negotiations are all about DEL (departmental expenditure limits), and standard government accounting differentiates between resource DEL (day-to-day spending) and capital DEL. Last week John Healey, the chancellor, announced that he would create a new category of ringfenced spending in the spending review next year – preventative DEL, or PDEL. This will ensure that budgets are protected for measures involving early intervention to create savings in the long term. Giving evidence to the Commons health committee yesterday, Cooper said that her public health officials were “extremely excited” about this announcement. She said: We think a lot of our investment across not just public health but across the NHS has benefits in t
Burnham says long-awaited 10-year plan may be delayed until January – as it happened
The document has been described as the core policy statement coming from No 10 Yesterday the pro-Brexit Guido Fawkes website published a list of items that it said could be banned as a result of Andy Burnham’s reset with the EU. It was based on items that have been banned under EU regulations passed since the UK left. Under the deal on food exports that has been agreed (but not yet published), the UK will have to align with EU sanitary and phytosanitary rules. And any further move to bring the UK closer to the EU could result in further regulatory alignment. One of the items on the Guido Fawke
