Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many applications from air ambulance charities his Department received for the air ambulance capital fund.
As part of the Autumn 2018 Budget, £10 million capital funding was allocated for air ambulance services in England. A call for bids for charities to apply for funding was launched by the Department and 14 applications were received. Nine applications were successful, and these air ambulance charities will receive a share of £10 million funding as per the table below:
Charity | Amount |
East Anglian Air Ambulance | £790,313 |
Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust | £1,397,700 |
London's Air Ambulance | £1,393,552 |
Essex and Herts Air Ambulance Trust | £1,500,000 |
Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance Charitable Trust | £1,818,200 |
Great Western Air Ambulance Charity | £267,659 |
Devon Air Ambulance Trust | £226,061 |
MAGPAS Air Ambulance | £1,340,493 |
Midlands Air Ambulance Charity | £1,266,022 |