Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to increase access to defibrillators in Ellesmere Port and Bromborough constituency.

The Department’s Community Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Fund delivered 3080 new AEDs to local communities between September 2023 and February 2025.

The Government’s position is that local communities are best placed to make decisions about procuring, locating and maintaining AEDs. Over 110,000 defibrillators are registered in the United Kingdom on The Circuit, the independent AED database. Over 30,000 of these have been added in the past two years, many as a result of local community-led action.

More broadly, Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board is taking a whole system approach to improving cardiovascular health including improving the detection and treatment of key cardiac risk factors. The action being taken aims to lower the incidence of sudden cardiac arrest associated with unmanaged arrhythmia, high blood pressure and advanced coronary disease.