Extra funding for the Welsh Ambulance Service to help improve emergency response times has been welcomed by Pembrokeshire's Assembly Members.

Angela Burns and Paul Davies were concerned that almost half of ambulances responding to 999 calls in the county took more than eight minutes to arrive in December.

Just 53.6 per cent of 999 calls were answered within eight minutes. The target figure is 65 per cent.

The Welsh Assembly Government has now announced that £10.5 million will be spent on new ambulance location systems technology.

Mrs Burns said: "This technology is long overdue for ambulances in Wales, crews elsewhere in the country have been using this equipment for a long time.

"It should go some way to helping to improve response rates in the county."

However the Conservative AMs say that it's not just money that's needed to solve the problem in the Welsh Ambulance Service.

"One of the biggest reasons why ambulances are getting delayed is that they have to queue at hospital A&E departments to drop off patients," said Mr Davies.

"There needs to be an urgent review into the relationship between ambulances and casualty departments because it is unacceptable to have ambulances waiting up to 50 minutes to offload. This will only be solved if we have a joined up approach. Unless this problem is sorted out then all the technology in the world won't improve response times."