National Resilience Committee
26 March 2026
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Committee House of Lords
00:00 - 02:02
Speaker 1
And thank you very much for joining us for this meeting of the committee on national resilience. I should remind you that this is a public session. We're being broadcast live. You'll both receive a transcript of this session in a couple of days' time so that you can make any minor corrections of things that have come out wrong in the broadcast. And we've each got some questions that we would like to ask you.
And perhaps when you give your first answer, you could introduce yourselves so that we've got that on on the tape as well. Thank you very much. So I'm gonna kick off with the first question, and perhaps I could direct it in the first instance to, to Lord Harris, although both of you, feel free to answer. Thank you very much, first of all, Lord Harris, for your very detailed and comprehensive, written evidence on behalf of the National Preparedness Commission, which is really helpful. So to make the best use of your time and our time this morning, I hope we can avoid repeating what's in the written evidence because we've already got that and are able to quote from it in our report.
So we'd really like it if we can get you to build on that and and look further forward. My first question then is, can you expand a bit on how exactly the current new geopolitical environment, which you refer to in the written evidence, is affecting the importance of how we go about achieving preparedness and resilience? And in particular, have you identified any European resilience structures or systems that The UK really could do with being part of? Okay. Well, I mean I mean,
02:02 - 02:11
Speaker 2
I think the first thing to say is that the the sheer pace of events, frankly, their unpredictability, and I'm not going
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