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Scottish Office

Answer

Mr. Moore: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many ambulances and similar vehicles operated in each of the Scottish Ambulance Service NHS Trust's 10 regional divisions are (a) under one year old, (b) between one and three years old, (c) between three and five years old, (d) between five and seven years old and (e) over seven years old. [52540] Mr. Dewar: The information is set out in the table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number of vehicles at 31 March 1998 by age band Ambulance Division (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) Total Argyll and Clyde 19 27 36 21 29 132 Ayrshire and Arran 4 27 23 15 16 85 Dumfries and Galloway 1 11 22 12 7 53 Greater Glasgow 27 56 32 12 19 146 Fife 11 18 12 17 13 71 Lothian, Borders 27 34 28 44 25 158 Forth Valley, 23 29 28 5 40 125 Lanarkshire Grampian, Orkney, 13 31 31 31 12 118 Shetland Highland, Western Isles 9 27 30 22 10 98 Tayside 10 21 19 28 15 93 Total 144 281 261 207 186 1,079 Scotland AEU{1} 71 130 135 109 7 452 PTV{2} 47 94 84 86 154 465 Support{3} 26 57 42 12 25 162 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Accident and Emergency Units {2} Patient Transport Vehicles {3} Mobile Ambulance Control Units, Emergency Support Units, Response Units, Motorcycles, District Ambulance Officers' Cars and Workshop Vehicles

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

52540; 317 c290-2W;317 c290-1W

Session

1997-98

Subjects

Ambulance services Patients Scotland Transport Vehicles

Contains statistics

Yes