Reports
State Protection Gap Risk Management – Financial Foundations for Resilience
15 October 2021Lord Toby Harris, Chair, National Preparedness Commission, and Professor Michael Mainelli, Executive Chairman, Z/Yen Group, provide new thinking on how insurance could reduce the impact of all significant risks, and… Read more
Learning that can save lives
09 September 2021This report by Lianna Roast from the Disaster Management Centre at Bournemouth University looks at how lessons from major incidents can be translated in to real-world change and asks how… Read more
Response to Call for Evidence from the Integrated Review
09 September 2021In response to the UK Government’s Call for Evidence in connection with the Integrated Review, the Chair of the National Preparedness Commission, Lord Toby Harris, has written to the Paymaster… Read more
Resilience reimagined: a practical guide for organisations
30 March 2021A major report commissioned by the National Preparedness Commission was launched on 30 March 2021. City AM reported the launch with an article by Lord Toby Harris, the Chairman of… Read more
Lessons from the Millennium Bug
17 February 2021The Millennium Bug or Y2K issue arose when it was feared that computers would fail at midnight on 1 January 2000. The concerns related to the formatting and storage of… Read more
Building Better Resilience
11 December 2020Covid-19 has shown that many organisations were less well-prepared than they thought they were and less well-prepared than they should have been. This paper highlights three areas that are crucial… Read more
Strategic Issues: A discussion paper
11 October 2020This paper was prepared for the first meeting of the National Preparedness Commission and sets out the global context and key strategic issues for the Commission’s future work. The full… Read more