Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she has taken with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that there is greater public awareness regarding out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.

In order to increase survival rates from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest NHS England has worked in partnership with St John’s Ambulance and others to increase access to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training.

Local ambulance trusts, charities, including St John’s Ambulance and the British Heart Foundation, and private providers deliver CPR training and training on the use of defibrillators both in the community and in schools, under the Restart a Heart programme.