Ambulance Services

(asked on 9th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to encourage the NHS to transition to more environmentally sustainable ambulance vehicles.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 16th December 2020

In October 2020, NHS England published the report titled ‘Delivering a Net Zero NHS’. The report states that the National Health Service is working towards road-testing the world’s first hydrogen-electric hybrid zero-emission double-crewed ambulance by 2022. This will be done through the London Ambulance Service as part of project ZERRO - Zero Emission Rapid Response Operations Ambulance - funded by Innovate UK, with the aim of being able to field zero emission vehicles for the rest of the fleet by 2032.

In line with the NHS operating planning and contracting guidance for 2020/21, the NHS is also ensuring that all new vehicle purchases and leases are low and ultra-low emission vehicles.

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