Regulatory fees for assessing integrated care systems: consultation outcome

In our consultation we outline how we consider the direct costs of our proposed approach on integrated care boards:

• the administrative cost of paying an annual regulatory fee
• the financial cost of the regulatory fee itself

We next summarise respondent views along with our considered response. In the annex we provide a more detailed summary of responses for each question.

Many respondents highlighted that a regulatory fee would impact on an integrated care board achieving its objectives. Respondents also noted how the level of any regulatory fee could financially impact this. Respondents also offered views relating to a regulatory impact of us assessing integrated care systems.

Our response: Respondents did not raise any additional factors to take into account as part of our regulatory impact assessment. We therefore finalise our regulatory impact assessment for our intended approach to recovering our regulatory costs for assessing integrated care systems. As outlined in our next steps we will continue to consider ways to mitigate the level of our regulatory costs for assessing integrated care systems. The regulatory impact of us assessing integrated care systems is beyond scope of this consultation.