SIR - At the end of the financial year 2006-2007, after sacking 22,000 staff in the NHS, it became apparent that there was a £5 million underspend.
Some trusts overspent, some underspent, but we all pay our National Insurance contributions as a nation. You recently reported that four schools were in trouble for overspending £2 million, yet the Bradford education system had a balance overall of £7 million.
Staff at Scarborough NHS Trust will be sacked for overspending when in fact nationally we are in surplus.
I remember hearing about the economics of the madhouse, shutting pits and importing coal.
Are we now to endure the accountancy of the madhouse.
Alan Holdsworth, Wellhouse, Mirfield
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