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Mr. Robin Cook
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give, for 1987 and 1991, and for each ambulance service in Wales, the percentage of emergency calls responded to within (a) seven to eight minutes and (b) 14 to20 minutes.
Mr. Nicholas Bennett
The available information is shown in the table:
| 1987–881per cent. response time within | 1990–91 per cent. response time within | |||
| 0–8 minutes | 0–20 minutes | 0–8 minutes | 0–20 minutes | |
| Clwyd | 62 | 99 | 59 | 96 |
| East Dyfed | 54 | 91 | 54 | 92 |
| Gwent | 61 | 98 | 50 | 100 |
| Gwynedd | 54 | 95 | 54 | 94 |
| Mid Glamorgan | 48 | 98 | 47 | 82 |
| Pembrokeshire | 33 | 68 | 37 | 92 |
| Powys | 46 | 86 | 44 | 82 |
| South Glamorgan | 66 | 99 | 56 | 95 |
| West Glamorgan | 55 | 94 | 64 | 97 |
| Wales | 83 | 99 | 83 | 97 |
| 1 Data not available prior to 1987–88. | ||||