Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the provision of ambulance services by South Central Ambulance Service in Henley and Thame constituency.

No specific assessment has been made for the Henley and Thame area, however we recognise that ambulance response times have been below the high standards that patients should expect in recent years.

The latest National Health Service data for January shows that ambulance response times performance for the South Central Ambulance NHS Trust, which provides services to the Henley and Thame, are not meeting the NHS Constitution standards.

The Government is committed to returning the NHS to these standards. The NHS 2025/26 priorities and operational planning guidance included improving ambulance response times as one of four national priorities to improve patient outcomes. An urgent and emergency care improvement plan to further support improvements in services will be published shortly.