Question follow-through · 19610
Defibrillators: Batteries
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of the availability of replacement batteries for defibrillators.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 7 Sept 2026 · 53 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of the availability of replacement batteries for defibrillators.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Department has arrangements in place to help ensure the continuity of the supply of medical products, such as replacement batteries for defibrillators, including the National Supply Disruption Response service, which – in the event of a supply issue –...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Transplant Surgery: Waiting Lists
14 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were on the transplant waiting list in (a) Bedfordshire (b) Cambridgeshire and (c) Hertfordshire in (i) 2023/24, (ii) 2024/25 and (iii) 2025/26.