The UK Government Resilience Action Plan

The UK Government Resilience Action Plan was published in July 2025. This page is written from the plan's 2026 Implementation Report, published by the Cabinet Office and covering July 2025 to June 2026. The report describes the plan, records what has been delivered against it and lists what is due next. Where this page states a fact, it is the report's account of the plan rather than the plan itself.

What the plan is

The report says the plan sets out the UK government's strategic vision for a stronger and more resilient UK and the steps being taken to deliver it, taking an all hazards approach. It is delivering against three objectives in this Parliament:

• continuously assess how resilient the UK is, to target interventions and resources effectively
• enable the whole of society to take action to increase their resilience
• strengthen the core public sector resilience system

At its core, the report says, is a focus on vulnerable people, assessing and planning for those who may be disproportionately affected by different kinds of emergency. The plan focuses primarily on England, on UK government departments and on reserved matters, with the UK government committed to working with the governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. A Chronic Risks Analysis was published alongside the plan. The report describes the COBR Directorate and lead government department model on which the plan rests; the central government and COBR page covers them.

What the report says has been delivered

Under the first objective, the report records a refreshed National Risk Register published alongside it, updated guidance to lead departments in November 2025 on assessing the impacts of crises on vulnerable people, a pilot in December 2025 of an independent assurance programme for whole-system risks, and a Local Capabilities Assessment of local resilience forums covering capabilities from evacuation and shelter to flood response.

Under the second objective, it records Exercise PEGASUS, described as the largest national pandemic exercise in UK history, which informed a Pandemic Preparedness Strategy published in March 2026; a first annual public survey of risk perception and preparedness published in July 2025; a consultation on partnership working with the voluntary, community and faith sector, with a government response in December 2025; a Civil Society Resilience Infrastructure Fund of up to £2.5 million; and an Energy Sector Cyber Security Strategy published in June 2026.

Under the third objective, it records five Chief Resilience Officers introduced through the Stronger LRF Trailblazer programme in Northumbria, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Suffolk and London; a public call for views as part of the post-implementation review of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, due to report in March 2027; and the relaunch of the Joint Organisational Learning platform.

What the report says is still to come

The report commits the government to publish new advice for households on preparing for disruption, supported by a multi-year public campaign anchored in GOV.UK/Prepare and launching later in 2026; to deliver an Energy Resilience Strategy and a Transport Resilience Strategy in 2026; to publish a National Cyber Action Plan; to hold the first meeting of a UK Resilience Forum in autumn 2026; to publish updated National Resilience Standards for local resilience forums in autumn 2026; and to deliver a national home defence exercise in 2027 as part of a Home Defence Programme that will update central crisis protocols traditionally known as War Books.

The four nations

The report records that the four governments meet in a Four Nations Ministerial Group, and summarises each devolved administration's own work: a Scotland-specific risk assessment and the Ready Scotland website; a classified Welsh risk register developed with the four Welsh forums; and a review of the Northern Ireland Civil Contingencies Framework with a Be Ready NI campaign planned for summer 2026. The Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland page has more.

Where to read it

The plan is at the publication URL above. The implementation report, which this page is written from, is the source listed above; the plan itself was not read for this page. The report covers one year of a plan that runs for the Parliament, so later reports may supersede what is recorded here.