Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government on how many occasions no ambulance or paramedic attended an incident reported by a 999 call in each month of the last year in (1) Sussex, and (2) London.

This information is not collected centrally.

Not all 999 calls require a face-to-face response to be dispatched. Such calls may include incidents where the ambulance service receives multiple calls about the same incident, abandoned calls, calls resolved by providing telephone advice, calls to check on estimated time of arrival of an ambulance, calls to say an ambulance is no longer required, calls to update the service on the patient’s condition, hoax calls, and calls from frequent callers where no clinical assessment is required.