29 Financial responsibilities of integrated care boards and their partners

29  Financial responsibilities of integrated care boards and their partners

(1)     The National Health Service Act 2006 is amended as follows.

(2)     For the italic heading before section 223G substitute—“Integrated care boards”.

(3)     After section 223GA insert—

“223GB Power to impose financial requirements on integrated care boards

(1)     NHS England may give integrated care boards directions about their management or use of financial or other resources.

(2)     The directions that may be given include a direction imposing limits on expenditure or resource use by integrated care boards.

(3)     NHS England must publish any directions under this section.

223GC Financial duties of integrated care boards: expenditure limits

(1)     An integrated care board must exercise its functions with a view to ensuring that expenditure incurred by the board in a financial year does not exceed the sums received by it in that year.

(2)     NHS England may by direction—

(a)     specify descriptions of expenditure that are, or are not, to be treated for the purposes of this section as expenditure incurred by an integrated care board, or expenditure incurred by it in a particular financial year;

(b)     specify descriptions of sums that are, or are not, to be treated for the purposes

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