HC Deb 25 January 1993 vol 217 cc535-6W
Mr. Spearing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the basis of the standards set in the citizens charter for response performance of emergency ambulance services.

Mr. Sackville

The patients charter performance standards reflect those first recommended to the ambulance service in 1990 as a national benchmark which all services should strive to meet or better.