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[email protected] 141 12 JULY 2011 142 services and exports and subtracts the price of UK House of Commons imports, it gives a more appropriate overall measure of inflation. Tuesday 12 July 2011 Henry Smith (Crawley) (Con): Does my right hon. Friend welcome the increase in the NHS West Sussex The House met at half-past Two o’clock budget of £35 million this year, which, coupled with the provisions of the Health and Social Care Bill, means PRAYERS that we will have far greater patient choice in our local area? [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] Mr Lansley: Yes, I do indeed welcome that. We all know that last year, this year and in future years, increases in the NHS budget in real terms will not be the Oral Answers to Questions kind of real-terms increases we saw in the past, but they will be real-terms increases. What we are already seeing in the NHS—we saw it last year—is that with a 2.2% increase in cash spending, there is none the less an HEALTH ability to sustain, and in many respects improve, performance.