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2. Again, public expenditures on education under Blair did rise by over fifty percent during his tenure in inflation-adjusted terms, and a rough percentage point of GDP, which appears very respectable. Yet, Private Finance Initiative-based school construction, consultants' fees, and the rest of the neoliberal vision again appear to have absorbed the increase, while actual positive results are less than clear. 194 Indeed, the educational "market" affording the "choice" about which Blair was so enthusiastic appears to have been more confusing for "consumers" than anything else, with the problem compounded by administrators' rush to capitalize on questionably designed incentives (favoring schools which specialized in one form of study or another, like science); while also encouraging the development of a hierarchy among educational institutions which saw the children of low-income families relegated to the lowest-performing institutions, quite at odds with the letter of Blair's oft-heard rhetoric about "meritocracy" (to say nothing of any progressive spirit the premise may have had). 195 Indeed, that fee-charging "independent schools" were getting more students than before 193 "The Number of Hospital Beds;The 1997-98 to 2010-11 average was,1994
3. 5 percent a year minimum rise in the pension's value, while the Blair government also took credit for the introduction of a Pension Credit and Winter Fuel Payments. Nick Pearce and Thomas Masada, Pension Reforms in the UK;The Pensions Act,1997