Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many ambulances based in (a) Coventry South constituency and (b) the UK have responded outside the Category (i) A and (ii) B response-time target in each of the last five years.

This information is not held in the format requested.

NHS England publishes data on performance in respect of category A calls. This data is published on a monthly basis at both an England national level and at individual ambulance trust level. Data for England and for West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (which covers Coventry South constituency) up to November 2016, Ambulance System Indicators Time Series to November 2016 is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators/

Data for December 2016 will be available on 9 February 2017.

West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust has been trialling the new national system for ambulance responses (the Ambulance Response Programme) since June 2016 and therefore Red 1, Red 2 and Category A response time targets currently do not apply to the Trust, therefore response data, for these categories from June 2016 is not available.

Data on category B calls is not held centrally.

Health is a devolved matter.