Question follow-through · 18846
Emergencies: Voluntary Organisations
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to involve voluntary, community and faith organisations in local and national emergency preparedness exercises.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 28 Jul 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to involve voluntary, community and faith organisations in local and national emergency preparedness exercises.
16 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Cabinet Office recognises the valuable role that the voluntary, community and faith sector (VCFS) can play in all aspects of resilience. The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 requires local Category 1 responders ‘to have regard’ to the activities of volunt...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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