Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the correlation between the availability of live traffic data in ambulances and average response times to Category 1 and Category 2 calls.

The specific information requested by the Hon. Member regarding live traffic updates is not centrally held. All ambulance vehicles have satellite navigation systems that assist crews to identify the location of each emergency. These are updated regularly to ensure the information within them remains current, and to reflect feedback from operational crews and managers who are trained on these systems and understand best the areas they serve.