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Again, on issues such as EpiPens, I remember going to—dare I say it—a Lib Dem conference with two friends, and, unbeknown to me, one of them had an allergy to peanuts. She did not eat a peanut; there was a bowl of peanuts on the bar, and she collapsed just because of the fumes of those peanuts. Her friend quickly opened her bag, got out the EpiPen, stuck it in her thigh and she was all right. That made me think, “I need to do something about this at school”, so 12 years ago we got EpiPens in, and all the staff, both teaching and non-teaching, had training. The number of grapefruits we stabbed with EpiPens was quite amazing. But that made me realise how important issues like this are. As we have been reminded, we did the same with defibrillators in schools. Again, that has been life-changing for those pupils who have, sadly, been in a very difficult situation.