Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what action they plan to take to support integrated care boards that are unable to fund redundancies to reduce staffing costs by the end of this year.

Following the Prime Minister’s announcement of the abolition of NHS England, we are clear on the need for a smaller centre, as well as scaling back integrated care board running costs and National Health Service provider corporate cost reductions to reduce waste and bureaucracy.

We have recently announced the Spending Review settlement which provides an additional £29 billion of annual day-to-day spending in real terms by 2028/29 compared to 2023/24. Ahead of asking the NHS to commence a multi-year planning round, we are now carefully reviewing how the settlement is prioritised including making provision for redundancy costs.