Around 1.1m children in the UK have asthma, with more than 30,000 being admitted to hospital every year. There are around 1,100 asthma deaths every year among both adults and children.

Stephen McPartland, MP for Stevenage, is the chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Asthma, a group of MPs and Peers who have a special interest in asthma issues and they are campaigning for the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to change the rules and allow schools to keep a spare inhaler as a last resort.

Headteacher of The Barclay School in Stevenage, Debbie Upton, said, "The well-being of our students is of utmost importance to us and anything that helps us to further improve our provision is to be welcomed".