Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how he plans to assess the quality and effectiveness of the strategies of integrated care boards.

NHS England has a legal duty to annually assess the performance of ICBs in each financial year and publish a summary of its findings. The assessment will consider how successfully the ICB has contributed to the wider local strategic priorities of the integrated care system (ICS); how it has performed its statutory functions, including the discharge of its legal duties; and it has delivered against guidance on its functions provided by NHS England or the Department.