Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many extra publicly accessible defibrillators and associated training programmes have been provided as a result of the £1 million investment announced in Budget 2015.

The £1 million programme, announced in the budget in 2015, to increase the availability and accessibility of public access defibrillators and numbers trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) made 700 more publicly accessible defibrillators in communities across England. A breakdown of awards made is below:

In the March 2016 budget, a further £1 million was made available to make public access defibrillators and CPR training more widely available in communities across England. A grant has been made to the British Heart Foundation to disburse the funding and it is currently accepting applications.