Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent progress his Department has made on strengthening national resilience.

As my Rt. Hon friend, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, set out in his statement to the House last week, we continue to make improvements to strengthen our national resilience.

• In April the UK Resilience Academy will be launched and will train over 4000 people a year and;

• Later this year we will undertake a full national pandemic response exercise.

The review of national resilience also continues. I will be inviting Members from across this House to attend drop-in sessions to discuss the review.