Question follow-through · 56909
Integrated Care Boards: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England has set formal (a) criteria and (b) guidance on the key functions Integrated Care Boards will be expected to provide under the proposed cost envelope.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England has set formal (a) criteria and (b) guidance on the key functions Integrated Care Boards will be expected to provide under the proposed cost envelope.
5 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2025
Answer published
NHS England has asked integrated care boards (ICBs) to act primarily as strategic commissioners of health and care services and to reduce the duplication of responsibilities within their structure with the expectation of achieving a reduction in their run...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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