Recommendation 21

The Government should conduct annual cross public sector-private sector exercises to specifically test the response to events in which multiple economic security risks manifest simultaneously. One example would be the scenario set out in the Strategic Defence Review: efforts to manipulate information, attacks on critical infrastructure, and wider attempts to disrupt the UK economy. These exercises could either form part of the National Exercising Programme or take place as a stand- alone wargame programme. (Recommendation, paragraph 71) Transforming the economic security toolkit