Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps she has taken to promote cardiopulmonary resuscitation in schools.

Many schools already choose to include cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillator awareness as part of their personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) teaching, using the services of organisations such as the Red Cross and St John Ambulance.

The British Heart Foundation has offered to provide free CPR training kits to every secondary school in the country, allowing young people to gain first-hand experience of this important life-saving skill. We have used our social media channels to raise awareness of this resource and have agreed to work with the British Heart Foundation to continue to promote this kit to schools. We expect many schools to take up this offer.