Sector Resilience Plan for Critical Infrastructure 2010
The independent review by Sir Michael Pitt of the summer 2007 floods recommended the development of plans to reduce the vulnerability of critical national infrastructure to flooding and other natural hazards.
A key output from this programme is the development of sector resilience plans, setting out the current level of resilience of critical infrastructure and essential services to natural hazards. The first iteration of the plans were completed at the end of 2009. They focussed on the resilience of the most critical infrastructure in each infrastructure sector, and to flooding only. Information in respect of other critical infrastructure, and other types of hazard, will be included in future iterations.
The detailed plans for each sector were required to address, as a minimum:
- Further information on the Pitt Review and the Government‟s response can be found at: www.defra.gov.uk
- The National Infrastructure is categorised into nine sectors: energy, food, water, transportation, communications, emergency services, health care, financial services and government
- Further details of the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Programme can be found at: www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
- Where a sector or sub-sector is devolved, the devolved administration is the equivalent of the sponsoring government department the identification of critical national infrastructure in each sector current understanding of the risks from river and coastal flooding to critical infrastructure and essential services in each sector; what is already being done directly and indirectly to address deficiencies in resilience to severe disruption from flooding; and further work that will be needed to improve resilience to disruption from flooding to the initial interim standard of resilience to a 0.5 per cent annual probability of flooding.
This document sets out a summary of those plans.
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