Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 66359

Ambulance Services: Vehicles

Tabled: 9 July 2025
Answered: 15 July 2025

Question

Phil Brickell

LabourBolton West

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with NHS Ambulance Trusts on the potential merits of enabling humanitarian charities to purchase end-of-life ambulances directly from them.

Answer

Karin Smyth
No such discussions have been held. Information on decommissioned National Health Service ambulances is not held. Decisions on how to appropriately decommission ambulances is taken at a local level by ambulance trusts.