Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans she has to work with a) local authorities and b) ambulance services to identify communities with insufficient access to public access defibrillators.

Further to the answer the Hon. Member was provided on 26 October in response to Question 34958, data on the Circuit shows that 27% of defibrillator cabinets are kept unlocked.

On the wider issues raised, I refer him to the answers provided on 13 April in response to Question 123971 and on 24 June in response to Question 10525.