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Integrated Care Boards: Operating Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to ask ICBs to reduce running costs by half.

answeredHelen MorganDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
14 Mar 2025
Target answer date
19 Mar 2025
Answer
26 Mar 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to ask ICBs to reduce running costs by half.

  2. 19 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 26 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    As part of the necessary changes to support the National Health Service to recover, NHS England has indicated that integrated care boards (ICBs) should reduce running costs. The Government is supportive of NHS England taking the action needed to get the N...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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