Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how the National Situation Centre (NatCen) is enforcing data-sharing mandates across public bodies to support real-time crisis planning.

The National Situation Centre works with UK Government departments and agencies, Devolved Governments and Local Resilience Forums to share data and information to support emergency planning and crisis response.

I refer to my answer to PQ 35489 on data sharing for crisis response.

The Situation Centre has also provided guidance to public bodies on the principles of Data sharing for national crisis response, published by the Government Analysis Function.