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Lord Scriven:To ask His Majesty's Government, what further to the Written Answer by Baroness Merron on 27 March (HL5042), what assessment they have made of the impact on individual integrated care board (ICB) areas of the approximately 9 percent reduction in funding for cancer alliances in 2025–26, following the consolidation of Service Development Funding into core allocations; and what is the breakdown of the total cancer alliance allocation for 2025–26 for each ICB area, compared to the allocation for 2024–25. \p Baroness Merron: Funding for Cancer Alliances is set nationally by NHS England. The place-based allocation is calculated on a population basis, and is flexible funding that Alliances use to support the delivery of NHS-wide priorities for cancer in ways that reflect local circumstances.

We have set stretching targets for the National Health Service to improve cancer performance next year and taken tough decisions to fix the foundations in the public finances at the Autumn Budget. These decisions have enabled the Spending Review settlement of a £22.6 billion increase in resource spending for the Department from 2023/24 outturn to 2025/26.

The following tables show information from the NHS Cancer Programme about the funding allocated to Cancer Alliances in 2024/25 and 2025/26, across both place based and targeted allocations; these are inclusive of NHS cost uplift factors which adjusts for inflation and other cost increases:

Funding for 2024/25

Cancer Alliance

Lead Integrated Care Board

Total place-based allocation (£ ‘000s)

Total targeted allocation (£ ‘000s)

Cheshire and Merseyside

CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE ICB

13,417

8,457

East Midlands

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ICB

22,564

8,139

East of England

CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH ICB

30,266

14,598

Greater Manchester

GREATER MANCHESTER INTEGRATED CARE ICB

14,789

17,331

Humber Coast and Vale

HUMBER AND NORTH YORKSHIRE ICB

8,085

5,960

Kent and Medway

KENT AND MEDWAY ICB

8,655

5.090

Lancashire and South Cumbria

LANCASHIRE AND SOUTH CUMBRIA ICB

8,854

4,458

North Central London

NORTH CENTRAL LONDON ICB

7,358

5,792

North East London

NORTH EAST LONDON ICB

9,752

3,448

Northern

NORTH EAST AND NORTH CUMBRIA ICB

15,465

10,631

Peninsula

DEVON ICB

8,724

7,787

South East London

SOUTH EAST LONDON ICB

8,845

2,959

South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw

SOUTH YORKSHIRE ICB

6,801

3,993

Surrey and Sussex

SURREY HEARTLANDS ICB

15,874

6,514

SWAG

BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE ICB

14,404

6,390

Thames Valley

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, OXFORDSHIRE AND BERKSHIRE WEST ICB

7,661

3,018

Wessex

HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT ICB

12,188

10,798

West London

SOUTH WEST LONDON ICB

17,778

9,303

West Midlands

BLACK COUNTRY ICB

29,045

10,802

West Yorkshire and Harrogate

WEST YORKSHIRE ICB

11,679

2,893

Grand Total

272,203

148,363

Source: NHS Cancer Programme

Funding for 2025/26

Cancer Alliance

Lead Integrated Care Board

Total place-based allocation (£ ‘000s)

Total targeted allocation (£ ‘000s)

Cheshire and Merseyside

CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE ICB

10,068

12,948

East Midlands

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ICB

17,027

10,366

East of England

CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH ICB

22,619

16,683

Greater Manchester

GREATER MANCHESTER INTEGRATED CARE ICB

11,128

17,713

Humber Coast and Vale

HUMBER AND NORTH YORKSHIRE ICB

6,015

5,278

Kent and Medway

KENT AND MEDWAY ICB

6,451

2,256

Lancashire and South Cumbria

LANCASHIRE AND SOUTH CUMBRIA ICB

6,666

4,432

North Central London

NORTH CENTRAL LONDON ICB

5,597

4,354

North East London

NORTH EAST LONDON ICB

7,481

3,267

Northern

NORTH EAST AND NORTH CUMBRIA ICB

11,593

16,047

Peninsula

DEVON ICB

6,460

11,559

South East London

SOUTH EAST LONDON ICB

6,633

4,515

South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw

SOUTH YORKSHIRE ICB

5,147

6,379

Surrey and Sussex

SURREY HEARTLANDS ICB

11,765

8,336

SWAG

BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE ICB

10,681

8,318

Thames Valley

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, OXFORDSHIRE AND BERKSHIRE WEST ICB

5,676

4,173

Wessex

HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT ICB

9,055

8,507

West London

SOUTH WEST LONDON ICB

13,526

8,972

West Midlands

BLACK COUNTRY ICB

21,906

16,741

West Yorkshire and Harrogate

WEST YORKSHIRE ICB

8,808

4,096

Grand Total

204,302

174,940

Source: NHS Cancer Programme