Air Ambulance Services: Finance

(asked on 25th July 2019) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Chris Skidmore Portrait
Chris Skidmore
This question was answered on 4th September 2019

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

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