Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on the teaching of emergency lifesaving and first aid skills in schools.

Department of Health officials have been working with officials from the Department for Education on the development of an initiative to allow schools to buy defibrillators at a reduced price. The British Heart Foundation, which supports the initiative, is also offering free cardiopulmonary resuscitation training kits to all secondary schools as part of its Nation of Lifesavers campaign.