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Ambulance Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce ambulance wait times for Category 2 calls to the national target of 18 minutes.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
24 Nov 2025
Target answer date
27 Nov 2025
Answer
27 Nov 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce ambulance wait times for Category 2 calls to the national target of 18 minutes.

  2. 27 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    The Government recognises that in recent years ambulance performance has not met the high standards patients should expect.In October, NHS England published the Medium Term Planning Framework which sets out ambitious targets to improve core urgent and eme...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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