Question follow-through · 36651

Emergencies: Planning

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to improve national resilience to global events.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
10 Mar 2025
Target answer date
12 Mar 2025
Answer
14 Mar 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to improve national resilience to global events.

  2. 12 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 14 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The first duty of the Government is to keep the country safe and we are working to strengthen our national resilience, including by working with international partners. In April the UK Resilience Academy will be launched and will train over 4000 people a ...

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