Defibrillators Debate
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Baroness Merron
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(2 years, 6 months ago)
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Lord Kamall (Con)
All I can say is that I hope so. I will try to find out and commit to write to my noble friend.
Baroness Merron (Lab)
My Lords, with Travelodge, Tesco and Royal Mail all announcing that they will participate in the British Heart Foundation use training pilot, will the Minister undertake to look at the potential impact of this training on saving lives and work with his ministerial colleagues across government to encourage such training on defibrillator use by other companies, the public sector and other organisations?
Lord Kamall (Con)
If noble Lords will excuse the pun, one of the heartening things in answering this is that, when I received briefing on this, it is really important and interesting how we are working across government. It is not only in the Department of Health; we are working with the Department for Transport on transport locations, DCMS on sports grounds, the Department for Education on education settings and other departments. This is really a cross-government initiative.