![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/no10-refuse-to-say-if-millionaire-rishi-sunak-has-private-health-insurance/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/0_PM-Rishi-Sunak-Visits-A-Hospital-In-South-London.jpg&description=Multi-millionaire Rishi Sunak's press secretary said 'I don't think you would expect me to comment on medical things relating to the Prime Minister' as NHS waits hit another recordRishi Sunak speaks with patient Catherine Poole as he visits Croydon University hospital on October 28Downing Street has refused to say if multi-millionaire Rishi Sunak has private health insurance. Unions say the NHS is on its knees, with new figures today showing the number of people waiting to start routine hospital treatment has hit a new record. And the number of people having to wait longer than a year to start hospital treatment was 401,537 in September, up from 387,257 the previous month. It is the equivalent of around one in 18 people on the entire waiting list. Asked if the Prime Minister had private medical insurance yesterday, his press secretary said: 'I actually don't know the answer to that question.' But she added: 'I don't think you would expect me to comment on medical things relating to the Prime Minister.' Asked if he had gone private for any treatments to skip waiting lists, she replied: 'I honestly don't know.' 'I don't think you would expect me to comment on medical things relating to the Prime Minister," Rishi Sunak's press secretary said ( POOL/AFP via Getty Images) It came after a question in PMQs to the Prime Minister - who with his wife Akshata Murty has a £730m fortune putting among the 250 richest people in Britain. Labour 's Karl Turner asked if the PM would 'pay privately and see somebody there and then' if he or someone in his family became unwell. Or 'would he start ringing the GP surgery at 8 o'clock each morning to not get an appointment?' asked the Labour MP. 'Would he go off to accident and emergency and wait 12 hours to be seen, would he call an ambulance that would not come?' The PM replied that Friarage Hospital in Northallerton 'have provided excellent care to my family over the years'. In the summer leadership campaign he dodged a question over wh){kind=link}
Multi-millionaire Rishi Sunak’s press secretary said ‘I don’t think you would expect me to comment on medical things relating to the Prime Minister’ as NHS waits hit another record
Downing Street has refused to say if multi-millionaire Rishi Sunak has private health insurance.
Unions say the NHS is on its knees, with new figures today showing the number of people waiting to start routine hospital treatment has hit a new record.
And the number of people having to wait longer than a year to start hospital treatment was 401,537 in September, up from 387,257 the previous month.
It is the equivalent of around one in 18 people on the entire waiting list.