Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 75588

Defibrillators: Shopping Centres

Tabled: 8 September 2025
Answered: 12 September 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to encourage the installation of defibrillators in all shopping centre entrances.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
To improve patients' survival rates following out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, the Government committed to improving access to automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in public spaces and reducing inequalities in access to these life-saving devices. Foll...
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