Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning
Preparing for Extreme Risks: Building a Resilient Society
Report of Session 2021-22 - published 3 December 2021 - HL Paper 110
Lessons to be learned from the climate change case study
Chapter 2: The UK risk landscape
The National Security Risk Assessment
Reasonable Worst-Case Scenario
Figure 1 Reasonable Worst-Case Scenario Construction
Lead Government Departments (LGDs)
Local governance of risk management
Office for Science and Technology Strategy
Box 2: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) definition of resilience
The National Resilience Strategy
Central government approach to risk
Spending on risk and HM Treasury
Box 4: Futures, Foresight and Horizon Scanning
Risk and resilience on an international stage
Box 5: Biological security, bioterror and bio-error
Chapter 4: A whole of society approach
Whole of society approaches internationally
The purpose and role of Local Resilience Forums
Funding of Local Resilience Forums
Building resilient business and industry
The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and the voluntary sector
Box 7: The Voluntary and Community Sector Emergencies Partnership
The use of volunteers internationally
Lessons learned from the COVID-19 case study
The National Security Risk Assessment
Timeframes and the velocity of risk
Box 9: Professor Ortwin Renn’s Risk Classification System
Interdependencies and systemic risk
The number of risks and their breadth
Business, industry and risk assessment
The voluntary sector and risk assessment
The value of communicating risk
Box 10: Eyjafjallajökull Volcanic Eruption Case Study
The Lead Government Department and siloes
Local planning: information access and adequacy
Business and industry: planning and response
Box 11: Toddbrook Reservoir Case Study
Lessons learned from the Toddbrook Reservoir case study
Summary of Conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest
Appendix 4: Summary of reserved and devolved responsibilities
Table 1: Summary of reserved and devolved responsibilities relevant to risk and resilience
Appendix 5: Acronyms and abbreviations
Evidence is published online at https://committees.parliament.uk/work/727/risk-assessment-and-risk-planning/publications/
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.