Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the North West Ambulance Service's average response time has been for (a) category 1 calls, (b) category 2 calls, (c) category 3 calls and (d) category 4 calls in each of the last 12 months.
The following table shows the average ambulance response times for the North West Ambulance Service for Category 1, 2, 3 and 4 calls in hours, minutes and seconds in each of the last 12 months. Information on Category 4 calls is unavailable from May 2021 due to a reporting error.
| Category 1 | Category 2 | Category 3 | Category 4 |
October 2020 | 8:03 | 45:40 | 2:18:38 | 2:59:01 |
November 2020 | 7:51 | 28:57 | 1:23:30 | 2:29:16 |
December 2020 | 7:36 | 26:29 | 1:17:46 | 2:56:38 |
January 2021 | 8:12 | 35:35 | 1:44:39 | 3:37:39 |
February 2021 | 7:12 | 21:04 | 49:52 | 1:48:36 |
March 2021 | 7:13 | 20:44 | 56:37 | 2:05:39 |
April 2021 | 7:29 | 23:52 | 1:21:43 | 3:08:16 |
May 2021 | 7:51 | 27:13 | 1:52:11 | 4:23:45 |
June 2021 | 8:19 | 38:15 | 3:18:28 | - |
July 2021 | 9:02 | 56:16 | 4:07:48 | - |
August 2021 | 8:42 | 49:05 | 3:14:19 | - |
September 2021 | 9:12 | 57:12 | 3:46:43 | - |
Source: NHS England