How UK Households Can Prepare for Emergencies

It's about saying to households across the country to be

ready by just having some everyday essentials indoors,

so should there be disruption from those sorts of events, you're

ready. Now that's, uh, things like two liters of

w- uh, water per per- three liters of water per person per day.

Uh, tinned goods in the cupboard to last you a

few days, things that don't

necessarily need, um, heating up in the stove or, or the

microwave, tinned goods. If you've got, um, babies,

things like your baby food and nappy supplies, pets, pet food, water.

And then things like torches that are battery-powered, uh,

mobile phone charging packs. Do you have enough cash

indoors if the, uh, local payment systems were

down? Those sorts of things that, uh, we can all

do to do our bit to be ready for, um, everyday acts

of nature. Uh, but as I said today, uh, the, in response to

questions at my speech in Telford, there are also, uh,

state-backed actors and terrorists who wish to do our country

harm

and are looking to do that by disrupting life for ordinary

citizens.

And the fact that you are saying this to people now,

publicly, what does that tell us?

I think there's a, a few things, Victoria.

I mean, um, so first of all, and to reassure people, there isn't a

particular piece of intelligence that says there's about to be an

attack we're concerned about. It's more about the work that we've

been doing across government to reflect on our national resilience, looking at

some of our friends across Europe and thinking, actually, um, the British

government is, has been lacking behi- lagging behind for some years

when it comes

to advice to households and businesses to

prepare for the sorts of disruption I mentioned, but also

some of the more serious threats, and that there's no sugarcoating the fact

that we

do live in a more dangerous and turbulent world.