Question follow-through · 42215
Ambulance Services: Private Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his department has spent on private emergency ambulance service companies in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 28 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 4 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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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
28 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his department has spent on private emergency ambulance service companies in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
1 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Apr 2025
Answer published
The information requested is not held. Decisions on the use of private ambulance companies to increase capacity are taken at a local level by the relevant ambulance trust.At a national level, the Government and NHS England are committed to improving ambul...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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