Written questions

Defibrillators: Databases

Commons · Question 28961 · Tabled 10 Sep 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 18 Sep 2026

Question

Asked by Scott Arthur

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of legislating for mandatory registration of newly installed public-access defibrillators on The Circuit database.

Answer

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 18 Sep 2026

Further to the answer of 17 July to Question 17975, the UK National Screening Committee is now considering responses to the consultation exercise, and will set out its conclusions in the usual way in due course.On the issue of defibrillator access, I refe...