Question follow-through · 10525
Defibrillators
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support public awareness of how to access and use community defibrillators in emergency situations.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 24 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support public awareness of how to access and use community defibrillators in emergency situations.
18 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Circuit national defibrillator network is independently operated by The British Heart Foundation (BHF). Information on the BHF website states that there are currently 121,449 registered defibrillators, of which 58% are accessible to the public on a 24...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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