PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(11 September 2026)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, (i) what estimate her Department has made of the number of newly qualified paramedics who have been unable to secure employment with NHS ambulance trusts in England in each of the last three years; (ii) what plans her Department has to extend the Graduate Guarantee scheme, currently available to newly qualified nurses and midwives, to newly qualified paramedics; and (iii) what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan accounts for the relationship between paramedic science training places and the number of substantive posts NHS ambulance trusts are funded to offer at the point of qualification.

Asked by:
Oliver Ryan (Labour)

Answered by:
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