PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(23 January 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) electric ambulances and (b) other electric vehicles were there in the ambulance service fleet for (i) England, (ii) the East and (iii) Suffolk in each year between 2014 and 2024.

Asked by:
Nick Timothy (Conservative)

The following two tables show the number of electric double-crewed ambulances and other emergency vehicles for England and the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, respectively, from 2019/20 to 2023/24:

England	Year	Number
Double-crewed ambulance	2019/20	0
	2021/22	1
	2022/23	1
	2023/24	2
Other emergency fleet	2019/20	1
	2021/22	31
	2022/23	80
	2023/24	150

East of England Ambulance Trust	Year	Number
Double-crewed ambulance	2019/20	0
	2021/22	0
	2022/23	0
	2023/24	0
Other emergency vehicle	2019/20	0
	2021/22	0
	2022/23	0
	2023/24	2

Notes: there will be some variation in numbers when comparing between years due to different levels of data quality and completeness in the data collections.

Data is only held for the years included in the tables, and information is not available for the Suffolk geographical area.

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