Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to paragraph 88 of the policy paper entitled UK Government Resilience Action Plan, published on 14 July 2025, how many meetings have been attended by civil servants within their Department in relation to the Home Defence Programme; which directorate in the Department owns the Departmental contribution to the Home Defence Programme; and what the job title is of the civil servant leading and cohering the Departmental contribution to the Home Defence Programme.

The Resilience Action Plan sets out the Government’s strategic approach to how we will strengthen our domestic resilience and invest to protect the nation. Department for Transport officials regularly attend meetings to discuss the implementation of the Resilience Action Plan as well as matters of national security and defence.

Led by the Director of Resilience, Analysis, International and Sanctions the Department for Transport is actively contributing to this through the work of several different teams including those in the Resilience, Analysis, International and Sanctions Directorate and the Transport Security Directorate. DfT regularly meet with the transport sector and colleagues across government to discuss and improve transport resilience and security.