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Ambulance Services: Pay

Volume 461: debated on Monday 18 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what financial rewards for performance ambulance services were eligible for in the financial years (a) 1991-92 to 1997-98 and (b) 1998-99 to 2006-07; and what financial rewards for performance ambulance services will be eligible for in the financial years 2007-08 to 2010-11. (139002)

Information is not available in a single central place in the format required, and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. Such information as is available is as follows:

From 2001-02 to 2003-04, national health service trusts that received three stars in the NHS performance ratings received a capital allocation of up to £1 million to support service development. Ambulance trusts received a rating for their performance across a range of areas, including ambulance response times.

The Department launched two capital incentive schemes to reward NHS ambulance trusts for marked performance improvement against the Category A 8-minute standard, one for 2004, the other for 2006-07.

No future financial rewards for ambulance trust performance have been considered by the Department for 2007-08 to 2010-11.