Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government how the redundancy of the previous chief executive post at the South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) satisfies the legal and Treasury definition of a redundancy given that a substantive, full-time chief executive was appointed to the same ICB on 8 April 2025.

There was a wider national requirement to reduce the number of integrated care board Chief Executive Officer roles. NHS England has advised that, in South Yorkshire, the case was treated as a contractual compulsory redundancy case, within that wider restructuring context, with approval being given on the basis that the post would be used for redeployment or other arrangements avoiding a further redundancy.

The subsequent appointment of a substantive Chief Executive does not in itself determine the status of the earlier post or the local redundancy decision.