Question follow-through · 6506
Rescue Services
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which minister has overall responsibility for search and rescue policy across government.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which minister has overall responsibility for search and rescue policy across government.
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2026
Answer published
The term ‘Search and Rescue’ covers a broad range of capabilities provided by civilian, military, and voluntary responders in the urban, rural, mountain, and maritime domains. As such, individual departments sponsoring these various services are responsib...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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