Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 97510

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Tabled: 5 December 2025
Answered: 22 December 2025

Question

Stuart Andrew

ConservativeDaventry

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to address regional and rural-urban disparities in ambulance response times, with reference to the performance of East Midlands Ambulance Service.

Answer

Karin Smyth
We acknowledge that ambulance performance has not consistently met expectations in recent years, and we are taking serious steps to improve performance across the country, including rural and semi-urban areas. That is why we published our Urgent and Emerg...

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