Ministers and the government’s macro-economic planning office CPB are at odds over the likely financial effect of almost stopping the personal healthcare budget system, the Telegraaf reports on Monday.

Last week, the CPB said the cuts would not save €900m as the cabinet hopes, but €600m – and only that much if people get less care in practice.
The junior health minister had pledged everyone would still get the same amount and standard of care when the personal budgets were stopped, but they would not be able to choose the provider.
Sloppy
Economic affairs minister Maxime Verhagen’s most senior civil servant has now written to the head of the CPB, accusing the organisation of producing a sloppy report and not communicating its findings properly to ministers.
Nor were ministers allowed to comment on the findings before publication, as is normal procedure, the letter said. Verhagen’s ministry is in charge of the CPB.
Sources in the centre-right coalition government have told the paper the report is a ‘deliberate attempt’ to destabilise the coalition.
Labour
The CPB’s director Coen Teulings is a prominent Labour party member.
Labour’s financial spokesman Ronald Plasterk said later on Monday the ministry’s letter ‘broke the boundaries of common decency’ and was inappropriate.
Labour and the other opposition parties have called for a parliamentary debate with the minister on the row.