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Ambulance Services: Finance

Asked by Mr Toby PerkinsLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 20 November 2024UIN 14057

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any of the increased funding for the NHS, as announced in the Autumn Budget 2024, is ring-fenced for ambulance services.

Answered by Karin Smyth

The National Health Service’s funding increases have not been ring-fenced in that way. Ring-fencing funding restricts the freedom of integrated care boards to take decisions based on the specific circumstances of their local populations.

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