Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions police vehicles have been used as ambulances in (a) London and (b) England and Wales in each year since 2010.

Statistics on the use of police cars as ambulances are not collected by the Home Office.

However, experimental data published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) publication, "Inpatients formally detained in hospitals under the Mental Health Act 1983 and patients subject to Supervised Community
Treatment Annual Figures, England 2012/13", suggested that in a sample offorces, just under 74% of those detained under section 136 of the Mental HealthAct 1983 and taken to a hospital based place of safety were transported by
the police rather than ambulance.

More details can be found in the HSCIC publication here: http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB12503.