Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 90688

Integrated Care Systems

Tabled: 13 November 2025
Answered: 1 December 2025

Question

Steve Barclay

ConservativeNorth East Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the projected slippage is against efficiency plans across integrated care systems in the current financial year.

Answer

Karin Smyth

For 2025/26, there is an efficiency and savings target of approximately £11,076 million across all integrated care systems. At month six, the projected delivery for the year remains all but on track against the total efficiency and savings target, with a forecasted shortfall of £5.7 million.

The table below sets out the efficiencies and savings delivered by systems since 2022:

2022/23

2023/24

2024/25

Efficiencies and savings delivered by systems (£bn)

5.0

7.3

8.7