Asked by: James Davies (Conservative - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to audit the performance of local resilience forums during the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered by Simon Clarke
With any emergency each local resilience forum partnership will, as a matter of course, seek to identify and then learn lessons from the response. Matters pertaining to Welsh local resilience forums are for the Welsh Government to answer.
Asked by: James Davies (Conservative - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
What steps his Department is taking to support Local Resilience Forums in managing local responses to the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered by Christopher Pincher
All Local Resilience Forums (LRFs) have a dedicated Government Liaison Officer from MHCLG, who provides a direct line of contact into central government. LRFs are further supported by senior MHCLG leaders and experts in local engagement and response. Ministers talk to LRF leads regularly to discuss issues and how we can better support them.
MHCLG have also supported the embedding of four highly experienced military planners into each LRF, who are providing on-the-ground support. I would like to take this opportunity to particularly thank the North Wales Local Resilience Forum, and, as I know my Honourable Friend is a medical practitioner himself, the whole NHS for their tireless and determined work at this most difficult time.