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Defibrillators: Shopping Centres

Commons · Question 75588 · Tabled 8 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 12 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by Jim Shannon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to encourage the installation of defibrillators in all shopping centre entrances.

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 12 Sep 2025

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...