Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 94138

Ambulance Services: Standards

Tabled: 24 November 2025
Answered: 27 November 2025
Named Day

Question

Alex Brewer

Liberal DemocratNorth East Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce ambulance wait times for Category 2 calls to the national target of 18 minutes.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Government recognises that in recent years ambulance performance has not met the high standards patients should expect.In October, NHS England published the Medium Term Planning Framework which sets out ambitious targets to improve core urgent and eme...

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