In a 180-page dossier, The Conservative Party's Credibility Deficit, the Labour Party scrutinises Tory policy costings, with Treasury estimates used on several occasions as alternatives.
The report includes claims that the Tory pledge to boost health visitor provision will cost up to £684m a year, more than three times the £200m the Conservatives have previously said it will cost. This is based on Treasury calculations that in order to meet pledges made in the Tory policy paper Helping New Families, which guarantees certain levels of service, as many as 15,000 more health visitors would be needed, not the 4,200 claimed.
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