Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many public defibrillators are operational in each London Boroughs.

The information requested is not held centrally and no assessment has been made. The Government has agreed to provide funding of £1 million to design a grant scheme for the expansion of automated external defibrillators that expands the number and accessibility of publicly supported access to defibrillators. As part of the criteria for the process of determining a selected partner for the Automated External Defibrillator Fund, the Department will ensure public defibrillators can be readily understood by members of the public. Successful grant bidders will be encouraged to train or facilitate the training of the local community in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.