Recommendation 16

We recommend that the Government establishes a Minister of State for CNI Resilience and a team within the Cabinet Office to focus on this issue, across a range of national security threats and hazards. To drive forward this work across departments, the Government should also re-establish a Ministerial committee on resilience, following the recent abolition of the National Security Council and its sub-committees (including the Resilience sub-committee of National Security Ministers). This group should regularly consider both climate adaptation and CNI interdependencies, reporting to the Foreign Policy and Security Council on an annual basis.