Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 68564

Motor Vehicles: Defibrillators

Tabled: 16 July 2025
Answered: 21 July 2025

Question

Victoria Collins

Liberal DemocratHarpenden and Berkhamsted

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of making it a mandatory requirement to fit defibrillators in every newly manufactured car.

Answer

Lilian Greenwood
The Government has no current plans to legislate to make it a mandatory requirement to fit defibrillators in every newly manufactured car.