§ Mr. Pikeasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in the Official Report by county the provision of ambulances per 10,000 population.
§ Mr. John PattenBased on the latest available statistics* and in the form in which they are recorded, the total number of ambulances per 100,000 population for each ambulance service authority in England in 1982–83 is set out in the following table.
* Compiled by the York Health Authority.
Ambulance service authority Ambulances per 100,000 population Cleveland 15 Cumbria 21 Durham 18 Northumbria* 18 Humberside 19 North Yorkshire 18 West Yorkshire* 18 Derbyshire 16 Leicestershire 14 Lincolnshire 19 Nottinghamshire 14 South Yorkshire* 11 Cambridgeshire 12 Norfolk 11 Suffolk 12 Bedfordshire 14 Hertfordshire 14 Essex 11 East Sussex 13 Kent 15 Surrey 12 West Sussex 13 London ambulance service* 16 Dorset 10 Hampshire 11 Wiltshire 17 Isle of Wight 14 Berkshire 10 Buckinghamshire 13 Northamptonshire 14 Oxfordshire 11 Avon 15 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 18 Devon 12 Gloucestershire 17 Somerset 16 Hereford and Worcester 14 Salop 20 Staffordshire 15 Warwickshire 15 West Midlands* 13 Cheshire 11 Merseyside* 13 Lancashire 16 Greater Manchester* 15 * Metropolitan service.