Claim: The £350 million a week we pay to the EU budget is the same as the cost of building a new NHS hospital every week or hiring 600,000 nurses.
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Verdict: we send £250 million not £350 million. that could pay for an nhs hospital but at the moment £85 million of it is spent in the uk paying for things like farmers and poorer areas, so we would have to cut that spending first.
Organisation: Full Fact
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Date published: 2016-05-19T00:00:00