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<p>The Civil Contingencies Act places the primary responsibility for emergency planning
on local responders working together. This activity at local level is constantly developing
in the light of testing and exercising and actual events. It is supported at the national
level by a range of activities including the production of the National Risk Assessment
(NRA), a classified biennial assessment that identifies and prioritises the most significant
emergencies the UK could face over the next five years, with the 2014 NRA having recently
been made available to local responders; the cross-government National Resilience
Capability Programme supported by the 2014 National Capability Survey, a voluntary
biennial survey of local responders which provides data to government and enables
self-improvement activity at the local tier; and the doctrine and training provided
by the Emergency Planning College. In addition, the government’s annual review of
UK resilience continues to consider the local, regional, and national level issues
that pose the greatest risks to the UK.</p><p> </p>
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