Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve ambulance response times.
The Department continues to work closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement to monitor and support performance in 2016-17.
NHS England’s Urgent and Emergency Care Review will transform ambulance services from a service based on a model of transportation to one of clinical assessment and treatment. We expect NHS England will make recommendations in spring 2017.