{"value":{"id":1815134,"askingMemberId":4934,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-06-20T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-06-25T00:00:00","uin":"61592","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hours each ambulance service has spent on hospital handovers in each of the last five financial years.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4444,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-06-26T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The following table shows the aggregate number of handover hours recorded by each ambulance service by year:</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan=\"2\"><p>Trust</p></td><td colspan=\"3\"><p>Total handover time in hours</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October to March 2023/24</p></td><td><p>April to March 2024/25</p></td><td><p>April to 25 May 2025/26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands Ambulance Service</p></td><td><p>153,860</p></td><td><p>305,717</p></td><td><p>43,598</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England Ambulance Service</p></td><td><p>143,789</p></td><td><p>272,836</p></td><td><p>37,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Isle of Wight Ambulance Service</p></td><td><p>2,672</p></td><td><p>6,692</p></td><td><p>819</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London Ambulance Service</p></td><td><p>129,007</p></td><td><p>274,021</p></td><td><p>47,281</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East Ambulance Service</p></td><td><p>39,280</p></td><td><p>83,995</p></td><td><p>13,293</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West Ambulance Service</p></td><td><p>144,460</p></td><td><p>336,579</p></td><td><p>49,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Central Ambulance Service</p></td><td><p>82,926</p></td><td><p>143,509</p></td><td><p>18,152</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East Coast Ambulance Service</p></td><td><p>67,139</p></td><td><p>132,974</p></td><td><p>21,046</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Western Ambulance Service</p></td><td><p>267,813</p></td><td><p>436,019</p></td><td><p>63,329</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands Ambulance Service</p></td><td><p>225,806</p></td><td><p>506,414</p></td><td><p>87,221</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire Ambulance Service</p></td><td><p>123,836</p></td><td><p>245,675</p></td><td><p>31,920</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: the Ambulance Quality Indicators dataset, with further information available at the following link: <br> <a href=\"https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators/</a></p><p>Note: Data is unavailable prior to October 2023.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":"2025-06-26T00:00:00","attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Accident and Emergency Departments and Ambulance Services","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1815134","method":"GET"}]}