Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many vacancies there were in NHS ambulance trusts in England in each of the last five years.
The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) vacancies in National Health Service ambulance trusts in England since September 2018.
| September 2018 | September 2019 | September 2020 | September 2021 | September 2022 |
Number of FTE Vacancies | 2,846 | 2,011 | 990 | 1,749 | 3,334 |
Source: NHS Digital, Vacancy Statistics