Health used ‘kit cash’ to avoid £2.5m. overspend
Saturday 1st May 2010, 2:30PM BST.
Health minister Hunter Adam attempted to defend his department against claims it could not be trusted to manage the budget allocated it by the States. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 0904555)
HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES used £2.5m-worth of ‘kit cash’ to balance its books last year that should have been used to buy equipment.
The revelation came as minister Hunter Adam yesterday attempted to defend his department against claims made by Chief Minister Lyndon Trott that HSSD could not be trusted to manage the budget allocated it by the States.
After being granted permission by the Bailiff to respond, Deputy Adam dismissed the accusation by Deputy Trott that the department had overspent its budget by £13m.
And in hitting back, Deputy Adam challenged the chief minister to back him or sack him if the board ‘cannot be trusted’.
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There’s something wrong here;
Now it should be cleared up if there is to be any trust on any of the parties involved.
Some honesty MUST come out of it,
There are far too many of these incidents that we read of almost every day,
Where are these so-called law people; come on folk don’t let yet another scandal get away scot-free.
Some-one is at fault; with Tax-payers money, is it going to shelved???????“?
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