Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 30 March (HL15724), whether the post of the previous chief executive of the South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board was identified for the redundancy pool as a direct result of a legal merger or abolition of that ICB as part of the reduction of ICBs from 42 to 26; and if no such merger or abolition was formally proposed for South Yorkshire ICB, on what basis that post was identified for redundancy under that framework.

It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.