Question follow-through · 49630

Ambulance Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will introduce legislation to (a) protect and (b) guide the ambulance service on a statutory footing.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 30 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 6 May 2025
Answer: 8 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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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

30 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will introduce legislation to (a) protect and (b) guide the ambulance service on a statutory footing.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 May 2025
Answer published
National Health Service ambulance services have already been placed on a statutory footing through existing legislation.NHS England will publish further guidance to support integrated care boards in their commissioning of ambulance services in 2025/26, an...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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