§ Mr. EvansTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average response time for emergency ambulances was for each hospital in Lancashire in each year since 1997. [53107]
§ Jacqui SmithInformation about emergency calls to the ambulance service is not available specifically for each hospital in Lancashire. Information about Lancashire Ambulance National Health Service Trust and all other ambulance NHS trusts, about the number of emergency calls and the proportion of emergency calls resulting in an ambulance arriving at the scene of the reported incident within the Government's target response times is contained in the Department's Statistical Bulletin "Ambulance Services, England 2000–01". A copy of the bulletin is in the Library and available at www.doh.gov.uk/public/ sb0115.htm.