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Ambulance Services: Electric Vehicles

Asked by Nick TimothyConservativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 30 January 2025UIN 26112

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) electric ambulances and (b) other electric vehicles were there in the ambulance service fleet for (i) England, (ii) the East and (iii) Suffolk in each year between 2014 and 2024.

Answered by Karin Smyth

The following two tables show the number of electric double-crewed ambulances and other emergency vehicles for England and the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, respectively, from 2019/20 to 2023/24:

England

Year

Number

Double-crewed ambulance

2019/20

0

2021/22

1

2022/23

1

2023/24

2

Other emergency fleet

2019/20

1

2021/22

31

2022/23

80

2023/24

150

East of England Ambulance Trust

Year

Number

Double-crewed ambulance

2019/20

0

2021/22

0

2022/23

0

2023/24

0

Other emergency vehicle

2019/20

0

2021/22

0

2022/23

0

2023/24

2


Notes: there will be some variation in numbers when comparing between years due to different levels of data quality and completeness in the data collections.

Data is only held for the years included in the tables, and information is not available for the Suffolk geographical area.

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