Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the level of ambulance and emergency waiting times in England.

The Government recognises that urgent and emergency care performance has fallen short in recent years and is committed to restoring ambulance response times and accident and emergency waiting times to the National Health Service constitutional standards.

A 10-Year Health Plan will be published in the Spring, setting out major NHS reforms, moving healthcare from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, and from sickness to prevention.

Additional actions to improve urgent and emergency care performance during 2025/26 will also be set out shortly.