Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 May 2023 to Question 185714 on Defibrillators: Information, what the criteria are for determining a selected partner for the Automated External Defibrillator Fund.

The Department will invite bids from those suppliers who are on the Governments Crown Commercial Service list of approved suppliers. The managing partner for the Automated External Defibrillator Fund will be selected during the tender and evaluation exercise based on their response to the draft specification which was published by the Department on 26 May 2023, which is available at the following link:

https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/2c6e4cd1-3302-448d-8ebe-2795fb996843