PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(7 September 2026)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for each of the last five financial years, what data is available on the uptake of a) the Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service, and b) the Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme among patients living in rural versus non-rural areas.

Asked by:
Sir Julian Smith (Conservative)

No data is centrally held on the uptake of Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service provision. The following table shows the Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme’s uptake over the last five financial years:

2021/22	12,763
2022/23	13,817
2023/24	12,930
2024/25	10,315
2025/26	10,344

The usage of the schemes cannot be disaggregated by rural/non-rural areas as the data is not collected in this way.

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