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.
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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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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
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.
18 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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