Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Huffington Post article entitled Police Driving Mental Health Patients To Hospital In 48 per cent Of All Crisis Cases, published on the 11 February 2019, whether his Department plans to reverse the reduction in funding to ambulance services over the last five years.

The following table sets out the total income received by National Health Service ambulance trusts in the last five financial years. Total income has increased each year over this period.

Total income received by NHS ambulance trusts 2013/14 – 2017/18

Source: Published NHS financial accounts