Question follow-through · 900039
Ambulance Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of ambulance response times.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 23 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 23 Jul 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of ambulance response times.
23 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2024
Answer published
We have been clear our assessment is that ambulance response times have been wholly inadequate in recent years. Patients with serious conditions such as suspected strokes waited over 34 minutes on average last month for an ambulance to arrive – nearly twi...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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