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Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 5 September 2024

Debate

Emergency Alert Service

Contribution

My Lords, when the UK Government’s resilience framework was launched two years ago, one of its three core principles, as announced, was: “Resilience is a ‘whole of society’ endeavour, so we must be more transparent and empower everybody to make a contribution”. Since then, there has been remarkably little publicity, let alone any attempts to engage “the whole of society” in this endeavour. Given the likelihood of flood emergencies, heat emergencies, more pandemics and terrorist emergencies, we ought to be engaged. Will the new Government attempt to engage all of us, not just local government resilience frameworks and others, in making sure that the country is informed about and ready for these sorts of emergencies?

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