Question follow-through · 23528
Ambulance Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time is for (a) ambulances held in queues and (b) people waiting at home for an ambulance.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jan 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time is for (a) ambulances held in queues and (b) people waiting at home for an ambulance.
17 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jan 2025
Answer published
The national average ambulance handover time was 43 minutes and 32 seconds in December 2024. The following table shows the national ambulance response time, including for people who have called for an ambulance from their home, for Category 1, 2, 3, and 4...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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