Question follow-through · 58997
Ambulance Services: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve uptake for jobs in the ambulance service.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 11 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 18 Jun 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
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Recorded timeline
11 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve uptake for jobs in the ambulance service.
13 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jun 2025
Answer published
As of March 2025, there were over 21,900 full time equivalent ambulance staff in National Health Service trusts and other core organisations in England, representing an increase of over 1,900, or 9.6%, compared to the previous year.We will publish a refre...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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