Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of changes in ambulance response times from 2005 to 2021 following Shropshire becoming part of the regional ambulance service in 2005.

Data on the average hours and minutes a week ambulances are unavailable to respond to 999 calls in Shropshire is not collected centrally.

No assessment of the potential merits of a county ambulance service for Shropshire or changes in ambulance response times has been made. Current ambulance response time standards were introduced in 2017 following the recommendations of the Ambulance Response Programme.