National Resilience Committee
18 June 2026
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National Resilience Committee House of Lords
00:02 - 02:19
Speaker 2
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 and 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 in writing. That would be excellent.
And Professor Lang, we've already had written evidence from you of course, for which many thanks. So 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 we'll each ask some questions, and 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. So could I ask to start with to sort of set the scene, to what extent UK supply chains you think are at the moment resilient to large-scale risks, particularly the impact of international disruptions that affect food security? I mean we've heard evidence for example that the vulnerability of our undersea cables being cut could have a pretty immediate effect on food supply chains. So how should we be working internationally as well as domestically to build and maintain and improve resilience on food security?
Who would like to start? Professor Lang.
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