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Ambulance Services: Essex

Asked by James McMurdockIndependentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 28 January 2026UIN 106908

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release entitled New ambulances deployed to boost NHS winter response, published on 31 December 2025, how many new ambulances have been allocated to Essex.

Answered by Karin Smyth

The 500 new ambulances announced in the Department’s press release of 31 December 2025 form part of East of England Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust’s wider ambulance replacement and expansion programme.

Allocations have not been finalised at individual county level, meaning it is not possible at this stage to confirm how many of these vehicles will be deployed in Essex.

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