Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 2 February (HL13305), what was the headcount at integrated care boards in (1) July 2024, and (2) the most recent period for which figures are available.

NHS England publishes monthly NHS Workforce Statistics which includes detailed statistics on staffing by individual trust and integrated care board (ICB). This publication has been used to supply a response to this question.

As of July 2024, there were 24,780 headcount staff working in ICBs across England. As of November 2025, this figure has decreased by 22 to 24,758 headcount staff working in ICBs across England. These numbers cover all staff employed directly by ICBs.

In April 2025 staff from two Commissiong Support Units, the NHS North of England Commissioning Support Unit and the NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit, transferred into the employment of their local ICBs, namely the NHS North East and Cumbria ICB and the NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB respectively. The impact of these moves was a one-off increase of 450 ICB staff across the two transfers.