Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many exit payments of £150,000 and more were made by integrated care boards in the 2024-25 financial year.

Data reported in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2024/25 is limited to providing high-level data on the total number and cost of exit payments, including non-contractual severance payments. This data is not broken down to identify the name or type of specific organisations or payment types. The data provided in the Department’s accounts use consolidated data from NHS England.

NHS England has confirmed that during 2024/25, there were 33 exit payment cases disclosed by integrated care boards which were of a value of £150,001 or more. This means that an exit package might be agreed, approved, and accrued in one financial year, and so disclosed in that year, but the actual payment may, in some cases, fall into the next financial year. NHS England does not hold information to identify where this is the case.