On the NHS it will have gone up 92% [by 2015, from 1999-2000].

If you read around the subject properly, instead of just quoting one set of figures, you'll see that NHS spending (in cash terms) increased from £33.5 billion in 1997/8 to £76.4 billion in 2005/6 and reached £96.4 billion for the financial year 2008/9 [data from The Kings Fund*]. An increase, in cash terms, of nearly 300% - from the Labour Government, whose manifesto was to bring the UK more closely to the health care standards of other EU countries. UK health care expenditure as a proportion of national income rose from 6% to 9% in that period.

So when you start quoting general data about rises in expenditure between two points - as propaganda - you have to factor in the expenditure growth graph. There may well be a 92% rise in NHS expenditure from 2000 to 2015 - but a large part of that will have been created by the previous government. Unless you quote a predicted NHS expenditure for 2015, then a blanket statement of "92%" is - politically - meaningless.

*The Kings Fund is an independent charity whose remit is to explore how the health system can be improved.