Ambulance Services: Private Sector
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his department has spent on private emergency ambulance service companies in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The information requested is not held. Decisions on the use of private ambulance companies to increase capacity are taken at a local level by the relevant ambulance trust.
At a national level, the Government and NHS England are committed to improving ambulance services. The National Health Service’s 2025/26 priorities and operational planning guidance set national priorities, which include improving accident and emergency waiting times and ambulance response times compared to 2024/25.
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