Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 13 April 2021 to Question 174874, what recent estimate he has made of what the (a) maximum percentage is of the NHS budget for England and (b) minimum percentage is of the NHS budget for England that would be shared between all ICSs in England.

We are proposing to establish statutory Integrated Care Systems, made up of an Integrated Care Board and Integrated Care Partnership, together referred to as the ICS. The Integrated Care Board (ICB) will take on the commissioning functions of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) as well as some of NHS England’s commissioning functions. NHS England will allocate a single system financial envelope to each ICB using the existing CCG allocation formula.

In 2019-20, through the National Health Service mandate, £123.8 billion was given to NHS England and of that, £89.9 billion was provided to CCGs. This is approximately 73% of NHS England’s funding allocated to CCGs. Under the new arrangements we anticipate this remaining broadly the same percentage, with adjustments made for any additional delegated or transferred functions.