Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what advice his Department gives to clinical commissioning groups on how to respond in circumstances where a private provider of patient transport services has its ambulances seized by bailiffs; and on how many occasions such a seizure has taken place.

The contractual arrangements entered into by clinical commissioning groups are matters for the organisations concerned and for NHS England. The Department is aware from media accounts that such a seizure of vehicles took place in June of this year in Sussex.