Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken with Cabinet colleagues to monitor national strike derogation arrangements for all ambulance trusts when they are made on a trust-by-trust basis.

Derogations are agreed between unions and individual ambulance trusts. The Government has been working closely with NHS England to respond to strike action and to put contingency plans in place.

The Government believes it is important that there is a legal requirement to ensure minimum service levels for ambulance services during strike action and has brought forward the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill.