Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the (1) number and (2) scale of deficits currently being reported by integrated care boards.

NHS England publishes regular updates on the financial performance of all National Health Service organisations in both their quarterly Oversight Framework segmentation league tables and their monthly board papers.

At month nine (M9), the end of December 2025, there are year to date overspends across NHS systems totalling £445 million, reflecting the impact of held back deficit support funding. Six systems account for more than half of this overspend, while 17 systems were delivering in line with their financial plans at that point in the year.

Further details can be found in the M9 Financial Position 2025/26 update to the February NHS England board on the NHS England website.