Question follow-through · 1530

Air Ambulance Services: Fuels

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of a shortage of aviation fuel on the operations of air ambulance charities.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
14 May 2026
Target answer date
18 May 2026
Answer
22 May 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of a shortage of aviation fuel on the operations of air ambulance charities.

  2. 18 May 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 22 May 2026

    Answer published

    We engage routinely with air ambulance charities on contingency planning. As part of this, we have engaged with air ambulance charities on fuel resilience.The United Kingdom remains well stocked for all fuel types and the Government is working with fuel s...

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