NHS (Charitable Trusts Etc) Bill

Natascha Engel Excerpts
Friday 22nd January 2016

(8 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Natascha Engel Portrait Madam Deputy Speaker (Natascha Engel)
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Order. Before the Minister responds, I should point out that the subject of defibrillators is some distance away from any of the amendments. The hon. Gentleman might like to save it for Third Reading.

Jane Ellison Portrait Jane Ellison
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I am sure we all recognise the truth of your judgment, Madam Deputy Speaker, but the example was given earlier of an NHS charity that had championed defibrillators in the local community, and I think that that is how the topic was introduced. My hon. Friend the Member for Mid Worcestershire (Nigel Huddleston) has made a good point, and I shall be happy to give him more information about the proportion of the fund that the British Heart Foundation has been able to spend on the training that he described.

I hope that what I have said about the amendments has been of assistance to the House.