Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health & Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve ambulance response times for Category 2 emergencies.

Ambulance trusts are being supported by NHS England and NHS Improvement to improve response times, including responses to Category 2 emergencies. NHS England and NHS Improvement have allocated a further £55 million to ambulance trusts to increase staff numbers, to provide over 700 additional staff in control rooms and on the frontline to improve response times. This is alongside a £4.4 million capital investment for an additional 154 ambulances this winter.