Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) serious incident and (b) coroner reports relating to mortality due to ambulance delays there were in each Ambulance Trust in the last year; and what steps he is taking to tackle such delays.

The total number of Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) reports is not held centrally by the Department. This is because the Department is not a recipient of each PFD report, as some reports are sent directly to the relevant National Health Service trust and/or NHS England.

Information on serious incident reports is not held in the format requested.

To address the pressures the ambulance service is facing, the NHS has published a delivery plan for recovering emergency care, which aims to deliver one of the fastest and longest sustained improvements in waiting times in history by reducing 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.