The Conservative former health secretary tells MPs there is a risk the NHS will 'gobble up' all the funds.
The Health and Social Care Levy Bill cleared the House of Commons on Tuesday evening after MPs gave it a third reading by 307 votes to 251, majority 56.
The government says the plans will generate £12bn a year over three years with around 85% of the money raised going to the NHS to help target record waiting lists and £5.4bn going to social care. He said: "Whilst this is a generous settlement, if we are honest, in the next three years, social care does not actually get as much money as it needs.He said no Conservative liked raising taxes and he feared "that if what we have done so far is tough, what is to come will be even tougher still".
Another Conservative, Richard Drax, urged ministers to lower taxes , criticising the plans as "Labour-lite".Labour's shadow Treasury minister, James Murray, said ministers were rushing the legislation through the Commons with just a "few hours" of scrutiny because they wanted to avoid "giving their own side enough time to push back".
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