How is that a waste?
I SPEAK annually to the U3A. I am always treated with absolute courtesy, however this year my name sake Mr Wood produced a series of figures which he claimed showed Goverment waste.
I wasn't aware at the time that these figures had come from the Taxpayers' Alliance.
In your letters page (Guardian and Herald, May 2, 2008), he rightly quotes me as querying the source of the figures and also the suggestion that they are necessarily 'waste'.
For instance, one of the figures, £1.6bn spent on irradicating and bearing down on hospital infection, makes the point very well.
Is Mr Wood and the Taxpayers' Alliance really suggesting that this money should not have been spent on tackling hospital infections?
In what sense can this money be counted as waste?
MIKE WOOD
MP for Batley and Spen
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