Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to review the staff shortages in the Yorkshire Ambulance Service.

NHS England advises there are currently no specific shortages of staff within the Yorkshire Ambulance Service. NHS England has allocated an additional £150 million for ambulance services in 2022/23 to support improvements to response times through additional call handler recruitment, retention and other funding requirements.

The number of National Health Service ambulance staff and support staff has increased by almost 40% since April 2010. Health Education England has a mandated target to train 3,000 paramedic graduates nationally per annum from 2021 to 2024.