Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a national register of defibrillators.

NHS England and health services in the devolved administrations have been working with the British Heart Foundation, the Resuscitation Council UK and the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives to establish a database to register defibrillators across the United Kingdom called ‘The Circuit’. The Circuit will provide a UK-wide network of defibrillators to every ambulance service in the country and the public.