Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 7 February (HL4741), what criteria they used to decide whether to approve the salaries for Integrated Care Boards (ICB) Chief Executives in (1) Humber Coast and Vale, (2) South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, and (3) Cornwall and Isles of Scilly; and why these Chief Executives were thought to justify higher salaries than other ICB Chief Executives.

The criteria, as per the agreed pay framework, used to approve the salaries for the aforementioned integrated care board Chief Executives were geographical scale and complexity; stakeholder footprint and complexity; and systems complexity, including where any associated trusts are in financial and quality special measures. For these three chief executive roles these attributes were judged to be of an exceptional nature and, therefore, higher rates of pay were supported by Ministers.