Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 56905

Integrated Care Boards: Operating Costs

Tabled: 3 June 2025
Answered: 16 June 2025

Question

Helen Morgan

Liberal Democrat — North Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what statutory basis NHS England has required Integrated Care Boards to reduce their running cost allowances by 50% by Quarter 3 of the 2025-26 financial year.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The National Health Service Act 2006, as amended by The Health and Care Act 2022, grants NHS England powers to establish integrated care boards (ICBs) as statutory bodies for commissioning the majority of health and care services in England. The National ...
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