Question follow-through · 14057

Ambulance Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any of the increased funding for the NHS, as announced in the Autumn Budget 2024, is ring-fenced for ambulance services.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
13 Nov 2024
Target answer date
18 Nov 2024
Answer
20 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any of the increased funding for the NHS, as announced in the Autumn Budget 2024, is ring-fenced for ambulance services.

  2. 18 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 20 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The National Health Service’s funding increases have not been ring-fenced in that way. Ring-fencing funding restricts the freedom of integrated care boards to take decisions based on the specific circumstances of their local populations.

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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