Milburn's Pounds 2o,Ooo From Nhs Finance Giants ; Exclusive

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CABINET Minister Alan Milburn the man in charge of Labour's Election manifesto has been paid thousands of pounds by companies profiting from a controversial health policy that he has championed.

Mr Milburn pocketed fees from two firms that have taken advantage of the Government's Private Finance Initiative reformswhich allow businesses to take out cheap loans to build hospitals then make vast profits by leasing them to the NHS.

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Milburn's Pounds 2o,Ooo From Nhs Finance Giants ; Exclusive

Despite opposition from some Labour colleagues, Mr Milburn helped to promote PFI while Health Secretary from 1999 to 2003.

Then, during the 15 months he was out of Government, he accepted lucrative employment from two of the firms that had benefited from PFI deals during his time in office.

While in the Cabinet, str...

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