Question follow-through · 18741
Ambulance Services: East Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for ambulances in the East Midlands.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 12 Dec 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for ambulances in the East Midlands.
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Government has committed to supporting the National Health Service to improve performance and achieve the standards set out in the NHS Constitution, including for ambulance response times.As a first step, my Rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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