Question follow-through · 8223

Ambulance Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many decommissioned NHS ambulances have been (a) donated and (b) sold to humanitarian charities by Trust over the past 12 months.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
9 Jun 2026
Target answer date
11 Jun 2026
Answer
16 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 9 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many decommissioned NHS ambulances have been (a) donated and (b) sold to humanitarian charities by Trust over the past 12 months.

  2. 11 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 16 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    NHS England does not collect or hold information centrally on numbers of decommissioned National Health Service ambulances donated or sold to humanitarian charities.Decommissioned NHS ambulances are generally sold at auction, mainly in the United Kingdom....

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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