Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department have made an assessment of the potential merits of implementing initiatives to raise awareness of the importance of CPR training.

NHS England has partnered with St John Ambulance to co-ordinate skills development to significantly increase the use of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) by individuals in community settings. This includes a national network of Community Advocates to champion the importance of first aid training 60,000 people that will help save up to 4,000 lives each year by 2028.

Those local organisations that are successful in bidding against the £1 million AED fund that has been announced will be encouraged to train or facilitate the training of the local community in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.