Jeremy Hunt forced to U-turn on mental health figures after making false claim to Parliament

[Northerner]

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has admitted making false claims in the House of Commons about an increase in the number of NHS mental health workers.

In a statement on World Mental Health Day, Mr Hunt told MPs: "We've got 30,000 more people working in mental health today than we had when [Labour] left office."

He later repeated the claim, saying: “We have 30,000 more professionals working in mental health than when my Government came into office.”

It subsequently emerged that he had inflated the actual number by around 43 times.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...nt-false-claim-house-of-commons-a7996036.html

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[mikeyB]

He’s full of fake news like that. In any event, mental health problems have increased markedly on his watch due to his pal Ian Duncan Smith’s Universal Benefit, among other things.

 

[Northerner]

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