Asked by: David Reed (Conservative - Exmouth and Exeter East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total budget in pounds is for a public awareness campaign associated with the updated GOV.UK Prepare guidance announced on 22 October 2026.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 29 September 2026 to question UIN 27196.
Asked by: David Reed (Conservative - Exmouth and Exeter East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Written Statement of 14 July 2026 on Annual Statement on National Resilience, HCWS244, whether it remains her Department's intention to launch the National Resilience Public Engagement Campaign by the end of 2026.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)
The Government launched the GOV.UK/BeReady website on Thursday 22 October 2026, alongside a Written Ministerial Statement, “Strengthening community resilience across the UK.”
Asked by: David Reed (Conservative - Exmouth and Exeter East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Written Statement of 14 July 2026 on Annual Statement on National Resilience, HCWS244, when she plans to launch the National Resilience Public Engagement Campaign.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)
The Government launched the GOV.UK/BeReady website on Thursday 22 October 2026, alongside a Written Ministerial Statement, “Strengthening community resilience across the UK.”
Asked by: David Reed (Conservative - Exmouth and Exeter East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Written Statement of 14 July 2026 on Annual Statement on National Resilience, HCWS244, how much funding has been allocated to the national resilience public awareness campaign in each of the next three financial years.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)
The campaign will be delivered through a low-cost strategy to drive national behaviour change. We are actively engaging local government, emergency services, utilities, industry, academia, and the voluntary and faith sectors to support the campaign to embed campaign messages into people's everyday lives (such as libraries, utility bills and via healthcare providers) and significantly amplify our overall reach.
We secured funding through the Spending Review process to design assets and to target priority audiences with paid advertising, where we have evidence that low/no cost communications activity had limited reach.
Asked by: David Reed (Conservative - Exmouth and Exeter East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 14 July 2026 on National Resilience, on what date the national resilience public awareness campaign will launch.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)
The household resilience public information campaign announced through the Annual Statement on National Resilience is being developed by the Cabinet Office and will launch later this year.
Asked by: David Reed (Conservative - Exmouth and Exeter East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many meetings her Department held with other departments on the cross-departmental consequences of an energy supply shortage in the last 12 months; and whether there is a fixed schedule for future such meetings.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)
Cabinet Office Ministers and officials regularly engage with other government departments on a wide range of cross-cutting resilience matters, including the impacts of any potential energy supply shortages.
Cross-departmental engagement occurs on a continuous basis, and there have been a large number of ministerial and official meetings held on broader resilience over the past 12 months, at which this topic can arise. To provide more detailed information would exceed the threshold and incur a disproportionate cost to the Cabinet Office.
Asked by: David Reed (Conservative - Exmouth and Exeter East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Written Statement of 14 July 2026 on Annual Statement on National Resilience, HCWS244, whether printed material will be delivered to households as part of the national resilience public awareness campaign.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) (Jointly with the Cabinet Office)
The three-year household resilience public information campaign will launch later this year. The government is developing resources and materials that will be hosted on GOV.UK for partners to download, adapt and distribute locally.
Asked by: David Reed (Conservative - Exmouth and Exeter East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that strategic suppliers build resilience into their delivery chains.
Answered by Mark Ferguson - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
In 2019, the Government introduced arrangements for the monitoring and management of strategic suppliers through Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) agreed between the Government and each strategic supplier. Under the MoU, strategic suppliers agree to provide the Government with information required to monitor and manage risks across their supply chains.
In addition, the Government regularly publishes Key Performance Indicators for its most significant contracts to maintain visibility of delivery performance. Individual contracting authorities are responsible for undertaking appropriate due diligence as part of their procurement processes.
The Procurement Act 2023 further strengthens the ability of contracting authorities to respond to poor performance and to mitigate risks across public sector supply chains.
Asked by: David Reed (Conservative - Exmouth and Exeter East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) his and (b) any other Department has identified any (i) state, (ii) state-linked and (iii) state-sponsored entity as (A) partially and (B) wholly responsible for the August 2025 to September 2025 cyber attack on Jaguar Land Rover.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The Government does not routinely comment on ongoing investigations or operational activity.
Asked by: David Reed (Conservative - Exmouth and Exeter East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what specific items of expenditure have been counted towards the Government's claim to have met the NATO target of spending 1.5% of GDP on resilience-related investment.
Answered by Angela Eagle - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The UK has met NATO’s 1.5% defence and security-related spending target, as defined by NATO. NATO’s definition sets out that spend should be to protect our critical infrastructure, defend our networks, ensure our civil preparedness and resilience, unleash innovation and strengthen our defence industrial base.
Given this definition, contributions came from a number of departments. All spending captured as part of the 1.5% is determined through the Spending Review and set out to Parliament via the Estimates process in the usual way.