Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 83023
Defibrillators: Registration
Tabled: 17 October 2025
Answered: 21 November 2025
Question
Patrick Hurley
Labour — Southport
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to require all publicly accessible defibrillators to be registered on the Circuit network.
Answer
Ashley DaltonAccording to the British Heart Foundation, there are now over 110,000 registered defibrillators in the United Kingdom, which is an increase of 30,000 since September 2023.The Government does not currently have plans to bring forward such legislative propo...
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