Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many officials in his Department have responsibility for examining the resilience of the UK's infrastructure.

The Cabinet Office role on infrastructure resilience is focused on providing a co-ordination and assurance function for infrastructure resilience. Other departments have staff working directly on infrastructure resilience according to sector.

There are currently fifteen officials in the Cabinet Office who spend a significant amount of their time working on infrastructure resilience.