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date	16/03/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Defence: Civilians
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to implement (1) air raid sirens, or (2) civil defence systems, in the UK to provide an early warning signal for a nuclear attack.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL7029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government does not plan to implement air raid sirens to provide an early warning signal for nuclear attack. Since April 1969, the Royal Navy has maintained continuous at sea deterrence, with at least one nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine patrolling the seas undetected at all times, ready to respond to the most extreme threats to the UK, should they materialise.</p><p><br>The Government is committed to ensuring the public receive advice about the risks to them and the actions they can take. As part of broad emergency response capabilities, arrangements are in place to warn and inform the public that an emergency has, or is about to, occur and the steps they should take in response. This is a locally based approach, supported as necessary, by national messaging from central government using a range of channels, including social and broadcast media. The Government has announced its intention to augment these existing arrangements with the launch of a mobile phone based emergency alerting system later this year.</p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 29/03/2022 15:06:17 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1438631

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date	07/03/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Defence: Civilians
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans there are for civilian defence in the event of a nuclear attack.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	135432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2022 answer text <p>Nuclear rhetoric from Russia is unhelpful. It is designed to deter and distract from its barbaric invasion of Ukraine. The Government continues to call on Russia to de-escalate, starting by ceasing its assault on Ukraine and withdrawing its forces.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The UK has well developed contingency plans to respond to a wide range of eventualities. The plans and supporting arrangements have been developed, refined and tested over many years. The UK’s plans are risk-based and built on the principle of generic capabilities which are able to respond to a wide range of events, augmented by specific, niche capabilities, where needed and warranted by the risk. The scale of these capabilities is driven by classified planning assumptions derived from the UK’s National Security Risk Assessment. A public facing version is published in the form of the National Risk Register.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 17/03/2022 16:16:21 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1050021

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date	28/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Civilians
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his December 2018 report on the Modernising Defence Programme, what the (a) timescale and (b) plans are for implementing the international civilian defence cadre; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Llanelli
tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
uin	213286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>Building International Capability for Defence is a priority. As mentioned in the Modernising Defence Programme report <em>Mobilising, Modernising and Transforming Defence</em>, part of our approach is the creation of an International Civilian Defence Cadre. Planning for this is currently under way and the intent is to create a dedicated support team due to stand-up later this year.</p> answering member constituency South Staffordshire answering member printed Gavin Williamson question first answered 31/01/2019 16:42:32 answering member 4108 label Biography information for Sir Gavin Williamson
tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith