Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what was the average waiting time for answering an emergency call to ambulance services (a) nationally and (b) by regional ambulance emergency call centre on a (i) Friday night and (ii) Saturday night in each of the last 5 years.
The information requested is not held centrally. Average monthly call answer times by ambulance trust are published by NHS England and NHS Improvement at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators/