Question follow-through · 117456

Community First Responders: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential safety benefits of providing warning lights for vehicles used by Community First Responders.

answeredHelen MorganDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 3 Mar 2026
Target answer date: 5 Mar 2026
Answer: 13 Mar 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential safety benefits of providing warning lights for vehicles used by Community First Responders.
5 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Mar 2026
Answer published
Community First Responders (CFRs) are volunteers trained by ambulance services to attend certain types of emergency calls in the communities where they live or work. Decisions on operational arrangements, including safety measures and equipment for CFRs, ...

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