Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of patients who were left waiting in ambulances for at least 30 minutes before being admitted to hospital in (a) Scunthorpe County Constituency, (b) North Lincolnshire and (c) England and Wales in each year from 2008 to 2017.

This information is not available in the format requested.

National figures for ambulance handover delays in England covering the winter of 2017/18 have been published by NHS England at the following website:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/winter-daily-sitreps/

Figures for individual service providers such as those based in Scunthorpe and North Lincolnshire can also be found at that address, along with the available data covering previous winters.

Healthcare in Wales is a devolved matter and accordingly does not fall within the remit of the Department.