Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on multi-year funding settlements for integrated care boards.

Integrated care board (ICB) allocations for 2025/26 were published on 30 January alongside the 2025/26 NHS Planning Guidance, with further information available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/allocations/

The pre-requisite for multi-year settlements for ICBs is a multi-year settlement for the Department, and phase two of the Spending Review is currently underway. There have not yet been discussions with Cabinet colleagues on what the Department’s settlement in the Spending Review will then mean for ICB allocations beyond 2025/26.