Indyref: Yes Want NHS Answers From Darling

NHS for Yes write to Better Together to explain health service implications of privatisation.

Alistair Darling's under pressure to answer questions on how NHS privatisation in England and Wales could affect Scotland's budget.

The Unite union and Labour shadow secretary Andy Burnham have raised concerns about selling off parts of the health service down south.

That's prompted the Nationalists' to write to Better Together's leader asking him to confirm or deny whether this would affect Scotland's budget.

'No' campaigners have branded the comments as 'scaremongering'.

The six questions NHS for Yes has posed to Alistair Darling are:
 
1.    Do you agree with Labour’s health spokesperson in England, Andy Burnham MP that the NHS in England could be broken up in five years?
2.    Do you agree with Andy Burnham that people need to be woken up to what is happening in the NHS which is taking "the first steps towards an American health care system"?
3.    Do you agree with Unite, the union that people in England "will increasingly have to pay for aspects of their care that used to be free at the time of treatment"?
4.    Can you guarantee that privatisation will never result in an increase to or extension of patient charges for health care in England? Will such a guarantee be included in the manifestos of the 3 main No parties at Westminster?
5.    Do you agree with the Welsh Health Minister that the current Westminster government believes in shrinking the state, which in turn means less money is being passed down to his administration?
6.    Can you confirm that any changes in health spending in England in the future will result in automatic changes to Scotland’s block grant? In this regard, do you still stand by the claim made by Scottish Labour, which helped you get elected, that the Tories have "starved our schools and hospitals of funding and there’s a real risk they’d do the same again”?

James Dornan is an SNP MSP: