Ambulance Services: Electric Vehicles
(asked on 23rd January 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) electric ambulances and (b) other electric vehicles were there in the ambulance service fleet for (i) England, (ii) the East and (iii) Suffolk in each year between 2014 and 2024.
The following two tables show the number of electric double-crewed ambulances and other emergency vehicles for England and the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, respectively, from 2019/20 to 2023/24:
England | Year | Number |
Double-crewed ambulance | 2019/20 | 0 |
2021/22 | 1 | |
2022/23 | 1 | |
2023/24 | 2 | |
Other emergency fleet | 2019/20 | 1 |
2021/22 | 31 | |
2022/23 | 80 | |
2023/24 | 150 |
East of England Ambulance Trust | Year | Number |
Double-crewed ambulance | 2019/20 | 0 |
2021/22 | 0 | |
2022/23 | 0 | |
2023/24 | 0 | |
Other emergency vehicle | 2019/20 | 0 |
2021/22 | 0 | |
2022/23 | 0 | |
2023/24 | 2 |
Notes: there will be some variation in numbers when comparing between years due to different levels of data quality and completeness in the data collections.
Data is only held for the years included in the tables, and information is not available for the Suffolk geographical area.