To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many ambulance and air ambulance crews serve north-east Essex; and what the ratio of ambulance crews to 1,000 population is (a) in north-east Essex and (b) in England. (193423)

Information on the number of ambulance and air ambulance crews and the ratio of ambulance crews to 1,000 populations for north-east Essex and England is not collected centrally. However, data on ambulance work force are contained within table 5 of the Information Centre's Non-Medical Workforce Census Bulletin (1996-2006), which is available via the Information Centre for health and social care website at:

www.ic.nhs.uk/webfiles/publications/nhsstaff2006/nonmed/Nonmedical%20Bulletin%20Tables%201-9%20final.xls