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Schools: Defibrillators

Question for Department for Education

UIN 62562, tabled on 25 June 2025

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department holds information on the number of times that defibrillators installed in state-funded schools were used in the last year.

Answered on

3 July 2025

Since January 2023, defibrillators provided by the department and installed in state-funded schools have been available for use and deployed in over 12,000 emergency situations where there has been a suspected cardiac arrest.