Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has received representations on the G4S Ambulance provision of the Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Patient Transport Service; what guidance his Department provides to the NHS when outsourcing similar provisions on ensuring the safety and security of ambulance parking areas; and whether liability for damage to ambulances on the equipment they contain rests with the NHS or with companies to whom ambulance transport services are outsourced.

No such representations have been received. This is an operational matter for the local NHS Trust. Liability for damage to ambulance vehicles would be for local determination between local National Health Service bodies and the companies to whom ambulance transport services are outsourced.