Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the business case approving the redundancy payment of the former chief executive of South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) in August 2025 was entirely contingent on the successful implementation of a shared leadership arrangement with another ICB.

NHS England has advised that restructuring considerations in the South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) included potential shared leadership, in the context of a wider national requirement to reduce the number of ICB Chief Executive posts.

NHS England has further advised that approval of the redundancy payment was not solely contingent on the successful implementation of shared leadership, and approval of the redundancy payment was given on the basis that it would avoid the need for further redundancies, either through redeployment or new leadership arrangements.