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 impact of capacity in (a) the ambulance service and (b) emergency departments on trends in the level of excess deaths in (i) York and (ii) the UK.

The method used by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities and the Office for National Statistics, does not allow an assessment to be made of the potential influence of capacity in the ambulance service and emergency departments on estimates of excess deaths.