Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the savings that would be made by NHS England setting up an NHS at risk pool instead of providing payments to individuals facing redundancy as a result of reductions to NHS England and integrated care board staff in this financial year.

Following the announcement of the abolition of NHS England, we are clear on the need for a smaller centre, as well as scaling back integrated care board running costs and National Health Service provider corporate cost reductions in order to reduce waste and bureaucracy.

Good progress is being made with the Department and NHS England having announced voluntary exit and expressions of interes,t respectively. Departmental exits are expected this calendar year so number of exits can be confirmed in the next few months. NHS England is running to a later timeframe, and we do not expect to be able to confirm numbers before the next financial year. No individuals have yet received redundancy or severance payments, and no assessment of an NHS at-risk pool has been made.