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UK: From civil defence to emergency planning

01 September 1991

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The Home Secretary announced in July that there was to be a further shift from civil defence towards emergency planning, reflecting "the reduced risk of nuclear conflict and the need for better peacetime planning." Civil defence plans will now be maintained on the basis that they "could be brought into full readiness within a period of three months." Local councils will be expected to maintain only one protected emergency centre instead of two, and the Royal Observer Corps is being disbanded.

This falls short of tackling the deficiencies in peacetime emergency planning outlined in a report by Mr David Brook, the Civil Emergencies Adviser. The report says that many councils do not maintain adequate peacetime emergency plans because the legislation is based on the amended 1948 Civil Defence Act.

Home Office press release 10.7.91.

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