§ Mrs. BeckettTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many times an ambulance has not arrived within the national charter standard time by ambulance service in each year since April 1991.
§ Mr. Sackville[holding answer 13 January 1995]: The national patients charter standard provides that ambulances responding to an emergency call should arrive at the scene of an incident in 95 per cent. of cases, within 14 minutes for urban services and within 19 minutes for rural services.
Information was not collected in sufficient detail in 1991–92 to provide the figures requested. Figures for 1992–93 and 1993–94 are shown in the table.
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