National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
2 November 2026
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National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) House of Lords
Follow its sittings00:00 - 00:12
Speaker 3
Order. Today we're holding our second session on societal resilience: a national conversation. Can I ask you, our witnesses, just to introduce yourselves very briefly from my left, your right?
00:12 - 00:24
Speaker 7
Hi, I'm Becky Heginbotham-Blount, I'm the Chief Resilience Officer for the Suffolk Resilience Forum and I'm the co-chair of the National Consortium of Societal Resilience, or NCSR for short. Thank you.
00:24 - 00:37
Speaker 4
My name is Professor Lee Miles. I'm a Professor of Crisis and Disaster Management at Bournemouth University Disaster Management Centre and I'm also Associate Dean of the Business and Law Faculty there, responsible for all things to do with that. Thank you.
00:37 - 01:06
Speaker 5
Thank you very much. Well, if I can just kick us off then, the UK public survey of risk perception, resilience and preparedness found that 68% of respondents thought that the number of emergencies or disasters would increase in the next 10 years. We've obviously had the recent announcement from government, the "Be Prepared" announcement, but do you think that the public is sufficiently aware of the risks that we face in our local communities, Becky?
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