Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to review (a) the trends in the level of and (b) reasons for coroner requests for information to his Department relating to ambulance delays (i) nationally, (ii) in Yorkshire and (iii) in the city of York.

The Department has reviewed and assessed each Prevention of Future Deaths report addressed to the Department and has addressed the Coroners’ concerns accordingly.

To address the pressures the ambulance service is facing, the National Health Service has published a delivery plan for recovering emergency care, including in Yorkshire and the city of York. This will deliver a reduction in Category 2 ambulance response times to 30 minutes next year with further improvements towards pre-pandemic levels the following year. Backed up by a £1 billion dedicated fund, the plan will include the delivery of 800 new ambulances including specialist mental health ambulances.