National Resilience Committee

18 June 2026

National Resilience Committee Actual start House of Lords

18:05 - 19:32
Speaker 1
We're on.  Good morning and thank you for coming to help us with our important inquiry into national resilience.  I should remind you that this is a public session, it's being broadcast live, but there will be a transcript sent to both of you within the next couple of days, so if there are any minor inaccuracies that you need to correct, that'll be your opportunity to do so. 

And when you've had a look at the transcript, if anything occurs to you that is not there that you wish you had said at the time, please feel free to send us supplementary comments or evidence in writing.  That would be excellent.  And Professor Lang, we've already had written evidence from you, of course, for which many thanks.  And that is already registered in the public domain, so you don't need to repeat what you've already told us there, but this is a good opportunity for you to enlarge on that.  And obviously we've got a lot of questions for both of you. 

When you give your first answer, perhaps you could each just introduce yourself very briefly so we've got that on the record as well. 

And I will kick off if that's okay.  I think we've got you for about an hour, yeah.  Okay, thank you. 

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