Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the research by the Health Services Journal, published on 5 March, which showed that there was an average wait time of over 33 minutes for a Category 2 emergency ambulance between April and September 2019 in all Clinical Commissioning Groups in the Mid and South Essex sustainability and transformation partnership.

No assessment has been made. All English ambulance services have adopted the Ambulance Response Programme model, and report data at trust level against the Ambulance Quality Indicators. There is no central data collection at clinical commissioning group level and no further assessment will be made, as it is a matter for local commissioners.