Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to establish a publicly available national database of defibrillators.

NHS England and NHS Improvement, the British Heart Foundation, the Resuscitation Council UK and the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives have developed The Circuit, a national defibrillator network which will register defibrillators in the United Kingdom. This will assist ambulance services to identify the nearest defibrillator at the time of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.