Question follow-through · 75523
Defibrillators: Coastal Areas and Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of access to defibrillators in (a) South East Cornwall constituency and (b) other (i) rural and (ii) coastal areas.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of access to defibrillators in (a) South East Cornwall constituency and (b) other (i) rural and (ii) coastal areas.
9 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Sept 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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