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Risk Assessment and Risk Planning

Inquiry by the Risk Assessment and Risk Planning Committee, 15 October 2020. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • : Bruce Carnegie-Brown, Lloyd's of London; CEO Julian Enoizi, Pool Re; Professor Paula Jarzabkowski, City's Business School, City, University of London; Huw Evans, Association of British Insurers; John Scott, Zurich Insurance Group
  • : Dr Cassidy Nelson, Biosecurity Team University of Oxford; Dr Catherine Rhodes, Biosecurity Research Initiative at St Catharine's (BioRISC), University of Cambridge; Dr Opi Outhwaite, St Mary's University
  • : Catherine Wright, Environment Agency; Laura Hughes, Association of British Insurers; Professor David Balmforth, Institution of Civil Engineers; Andy Bord, Flood Re
  • : Ian Lisk, Natural Hazards Partnership
  • 2 December 2020: Piers Millet, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University; Professor David Alexander, University College London; Ortwin Renn, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
  • 9 December 2020: Professor Sir John Beddington, Her Majesty's Government; Professor Sir Mark Walport, Her Majesty's Government
  • 25 December 2020: Roger Hargreaves, Civil Contingencies Secretariat
  • 13 January 2021: Caroline Gorski, Rolls Royce; John Thornhill, Financial Times; Dr Simon Beard, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge; Dr Stephen Cave, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge
  • 27 January 2021: Ed Butler, Pool Reinsurance; Suzanne Raine, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge; Dr Simon Harwood, Cranfield University; Dr David Blagden, University of Exeter
  • 27 January 2021: Lord Ricketts, House of Lords
  • 3 March 2021: Lord Houghton of Richmond, House of Lords; Sir Chris Deverell, Ministry of Defence; Dr Marc Schelhase, Defence Studies Department, KCL and Staff College, UK Defence Academy
  • 10 March 2021: Tim Stone, Nuclear Industry Association; Will Webster, Oil and Gas UK
  • 10 March 2021: Dame Sue Ion, National Skills Academy for Nuclear; Professor Stephen Richardson, Imperial College; Professor Stephen Richardson, Institution of Chemical Engineers
  • 17 March 2021: Professor Jim Hall, University of Oxford; Elisabeth Braw, American Enterprise Institute; Tim Watson, University of Warwick
  • 17 March 2021: Cathryn Scott, Ofgem; Lindsey Fussell, Ofcom; Chris Train OBE, Cadent (formerly National Grid Gas Distribution)
  • 24 March 2021: Kate Nicholls, UKHospitality; Eoin Murray, Hermes Investment; Leigh Pomlett, Logistics UK; Joanne Holden, Mercer; Dr Adam Marshall, British Chambers of Commerce
  • 14 April 2021: Paul Wyatt, Ministry of Defence; Major General Charles Stickland CB OBE, Ministry of Defence
  • 14 April 2021: Dr Karen Reddin, Bournemouth University; John Curry, Bath Spa University; Deborah Higgins, Emergency Planning College
  • 21 April 2021: Jim Kronhamn, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB); Peter Ho, Centre for Strategic Futures, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore; Harold van Waveren, Rijkswaterstaat; Professor Alexander Fekete, Technical University of Cologne
  • 28 April 2021: Charlotte Pickles, Reform; Alex Thomas, Institute for Government; Professor Siân Griffiths OBE, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • 28 April 2021: Professor Brooke Rogers OBE, Kings College London; Professor Duncan Shaw, University of Manchester; Dr Carina Fearnley, University College London; Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge
  • 19 May 2021: Alistair Read, Mountain Rescue England and Wales; Lynda Battarbee, The Trussell Trust; Richard Lee, St John Ambulance; Adrian Clee, Salvation Army
  • 19 May 2021: John Barradell OBE, London Resilience Forum; Stuart Marshall, Cleveland Local Resilience Forum; Chief Constable Rachel Swann, Derby and Derbyshire Local Resilience Forum; Dr Fiona Twycross, London Resilience Forum
  • 26 May 2021: Author Robert Harris; Author Adrian Tchaikovsky; Author Peter F. Hamilton
  • 26 May 2021: Professor Brian Collins, CB, FREng, National Preparedness Commission; Lord Toby Harris, National Preparedness Commission
  • 9 June 2021: Margaret Beckett; Sir Oliver Letwin; Lord Gus O'Donnell
  • 16 June 2021: Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP, Paymaster General; Roger Hargreaves, Civil Contingencies Secretariat
  • 23 June 2021: Sir Patrick Vallance, Government Chief Scientific Adviser; Professor Gideon Henderson, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Professor Charlotte Watts, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
  • 23 June 2021: Reg Kilpatrick, Welsh Government; Karen Pearson, The Executive Office, Northern Ireland; Shirley Rogers, Scottish Government