Finance (No. 3) Bill

““But surely that is a complete coincidence””, he said ironically! I do not know whether my hon. Friend was making the point that this is payback time, but the level of these bonuses is incredible. Let me finish my point about Barclays. I was saying that £38 million in bonuses and salaries went to just the top five earners. That is enough money to pay the wages of more than 1,000 qualified nurses in our NHS. That gives some meaning to the scale—enough money to pay for 1,000 qualified nurses.