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Motor Vehicles: Defibrillators

Asked by Victoria CollinsLiberal DemocratDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 21 July 2025UIN 68564

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of making it a mandatory requirement to fit defibrillators in every newly manufactured car.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood

The Government has no current plans to legislate to make it a mandatory requirement to fit defibrillators in every newly manufactured car.

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