First Aid

Baroness Massey of Darwen Excerpts

Thursday 17th June 2010 Lords Chamber

[Earl Howe]

My Lords, the noble Baroness makes an important point. We all know that St John is active in major emergencies and road accidents and was active in the London bombings of five years ago. She is absolutely right that accidents in the workplace are a significant feature of the kinds of injuries that hospitals see. The ambulance service extends training in the workplace in a number of areas. However, I shall go back to the department and inquire about the extent to which St John in particular is doing this work. We may be able to feed in some important messages.

[Baroness Massey of Darwen]

Given the original Question, and the fact that we are in a workplace, has the noble Earl thought of enabling short first aid courses to be held in your Lordships’ House—I do not mean in the Chamber—so that we could respond in an emergency?

[Earl Howe]

My Lords, I will gladly feed that suggestion in to the Chairman of Committees.