PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(15 October 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of redundancy payments associated with the planned redundancies in the South West London Integrated Care Board under the new NHS 10-Year Health Plan; and whether he plans to provide additional funding for those redundancy payments.

Asked by:
Mr Paul Kohler (Liberal Democrat)

Following the Prime Minister’s 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 NHS provider corporate cost reductions in order to reduce waste and bureaucracy.

We have recently announced the Spending Review settlement which provides an additional £29 billion of annual day-to-day spending in real terms by 2028/29 compared to 2023/24. We are now carefully reviewing how the settlement is prioritised, including making provision for redundancy costs. In due course, the National Health Service will be asked to incorporate this into the multi-year planning round which has now been launched with the publication of the Medium Term Planning Framework on 24 October 2025.

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