Paramedical Staff
Commons · Question 112488 · Tabled 10 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 2 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by James McMurdock
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost per responder of training and deploying motorcycle paramedics compared with standard ambulance crews.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 2 Mar 2026
The combination of response vehicles and staff that make up an ambulance service’s emergency response, including double-crewed ambulances, rapid response vehicles, community first responders, and motorcycle and bicycle paramedic responders, is an operatio...