Developing Resilience Standards In UK Infrastructure
The UK’s economic infrastructure has, for the most part, proved resilient to shocks and stresses over recent years. However, infrastructure service disruptions over the last couple of years have demonstrated the potential for widespread failures including knock on effects such as school closures. Infrastructure systems face a range of threats, including cyber or terrorist attacks. This report by the National Infrastructure Commission focuses on measurable threats – climate change, a lack of capacity or redundancy in systems, and the impact of an aging asset base – which can be addressed by setting resilience standards. In the second National Infrastructure Assessment the Commission recommended that government should publish resilience standards for the digital and telecoms, energy, transport and water sectors by 2025.
This report sets out how government can implement this recommendation.