§ Mrs. Dunwoodyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many emergency calls were answered by ambulance services in England, in each regional health authority and in the group of district health authorities in Cheshire which jointly organise their services, per 100,000 of population, in each of the last five years.
Number (in thousands) ofNHS emergency patients carried by ambulance in year and rate per 100,000 population 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 Ambulance authority service Number Rate Number Rate Number Rate Number Rate Number Rate England * * 1,786.0 3,838 1,823.0 3,901 1,849.3 3,966 1,924.1 4,110 Northern Region Cleveland 36.6 6,391 38.6 6,781 40.9 7,184 39.2 6,931 27.7 4,910 Cumbria 8.4 1,762 11.8 2,474 11.7 2,498 7.6 1,587 12.3 2,552 Durham 30.0 4,971 30.2 5,012 29.8 4,936 27.5 4,523 31.5 5,191 Northumbria metropolitan * * 77.5 5,330 80.6 5,703 84.0 5,943 84.2 5,954 Yorkshire Region Humberside 32.6 3,845 33.3 3,915 32.3 3,815 34.1 4,022 34.9 4,076 North Yorkshire 14.7 2,417 14.5 2,356 14.1 2,290 14.6 2,362 14.4 2,308 West Yorkshire metropolitan * * 121.7 5,754 129.9 6,147 96.9 4,587 95.1 4,507 Trent Region Derbyshire 18.7 2,083 26.2 2,928 34.0 3,791 40.8 4,538 33.4 3,791 Leicestershire 20.8 2,494 20.6 2,469 21.4 2,553 21.6 2,581 21.1 2,454 Lincolnshire 14.1 2,659 24.1 4,520 24.1 4,506 25.4 4,716 25.9 4,722 Nottinghamshire 44.9 4,611 42.6 4,371 57.1 5,857 59.3 6,065 60.7 6,127 South Yorkshire metropolitan * * 74.8 5,738 76.2 5,859 81.1 6,229 84.7 6,439 East Anglian Region Cambridgeshire 11.7 2,072 12.1 2,077 14.4 2,468 16.1 2,772 19.4 3,335 Norfolk 13.2 1,706 14.0 1,798 14.2 1,800 14.6 1,863 14.9 1,873 Suffolk 8.0 1,625 7.7 1,524 14.8 2,956 15.9 3,131 8.0 1,515