Written questions

Accident and Emergency Departments and Ambulance Services

Commons · Question 48400 · Tabled 28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 6 May 2025

Question

Asked by Jim Shannon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the level of ambulance and emergency waiting times in England.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 6 May 2025

The Government recognises that urgent and emergency care performance has fallen short in recent years and is committed to restoring ambulance response times and accident and emergency waiting times to the National Health Service constitutional standards.A...