Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of ambulance waiting times in each month in 2017 in (a) Lewisham, Deptford Constituency, (b) London and (c) England.

The information is not held in the format requested. Following a rigorous and independent evaluation of the clinically-led Ambulance Response Programme, in July 2017 the Department agreed NHS England’s recommendations to implement an improved ambulance performance framework. These changes improve responses to patients and the efficiency and resiliency of the ambulance service in the face of rising demand. All mainland National Health Service ambulance trusts are now operating against this new framework and the ambulance service on the Isle of Wight will do so from April 2018.

We recognise that not all trusts are meeting the required standards, however NHS England and NHS Improvement are working closely with the service to assist them to effectively perform against these new requirements, and NHS England will undertake a review of the framework in spring 2018.

Regional ambulance response time performance is available and is published monthly by NHS England. This can be found online at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators/

Response time performance by city or county area is not centrally collected.