Emergencies: Planning
Commons · Question 117878 · Tabled 4 Mar 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by Ben Spencer
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of mechanisms of accountability of Local Resilience Forum Chairs to Members of Parliament.
Answer
Answered by Samantha Dixon, 10 Mar 2026
Under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, statutory duties for emergency planning rest with individual Category 1 responders, who fulfil these duties collaboratively through Local Resilience Forums (LRFs). LRFs are not statutory bodies and therefore hold no...