Question follow-through · 119001
Paramedical Staff: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure NHS ambulance trusts have sufficient funding to recruit newly qualified paramedics.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 13 Mar 2026 · 4 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
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Recorded timeline
9 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure NHS ambulance trusts have sufficient funding to recruit newly qualified paramedics.
11 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Mar 2026
Answer published
No estimate has been made of the number of newly qualified paramedics unable to secure employment in National Health Service ambulance trusts.Decisions on the employment of newly qualified paramedics are a matter for individual NHS trusts which manage the...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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