Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the waiting time for a 999 ambulance call.

Ambulance 999 calls are triaged and categorised by clinical priority.

For Category 1 calls, the average response time for England in November 2022 was 9 minutes and 26 seconds. Category 1 90th percentile was 16 minutes 51 seconds.

For Category 2 calls, the average response time in November 2022 was 48 minutes 8 seconds, and the Category 2 90th percentile was 1 hour 45 minutes 18 seconds.

For Category 3 calls, the average response time was 2 hours 43 minutes 5 seconds, and Category 4 calls was 3 hours 20 minutes 18 seconds.