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Alan Milburn’s private interests
Almost two decades ago he was the pro-PFI health secretary – now he and his family trouser millions from his consultancy work for private healthcare interests. Some political stances pay better than others, explains SOLOMON HUGHES
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FORMER Labour health secretary Alan Milburn and his immediate family got a £2,141,000 payout from his corporate consultancy business this year, according to the latest accounts.
That’s up on their payout last year of £1.338m. Milburn himself gets the lion’s share of the money — by my rough calculation he will have taken about £1.5m of the dividend.
Milburn was the New Labour secretary of state for health from 1999-03 and he promoted NHS outsourcing, including buying NHS operations from private hospitals and PFI outsourcing, while in post.
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