Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department had with East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust on the use of Resource Escalation Action Plan level 4 in December 2017.

There have been no such discussions. The Department has received assurance that all cases that had significant delays have already been identified and are being investigated. Where cases are classified as ‘serious incidents’ there is a nationally set process which will rightly be followed to ensure that the investigations are appropriately rigorous.