Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what national preparations have been made for geomagnetic storms, as well as other space weather-related incidents.

The Government treats severe space weather, including geomagnetic storms, as a national resilience risk. Preparations include continuous monitoring and forecasting by the Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre, cross-Government coordination led by UK Space Agency in BIST, and sector engagement through severe space weather governance groups.

Government is refreshing the National Severe Space Weather Preparedness Strategy to strengthen preparedness, response and recovery arrangements and will publish in due course. Work is also under way with government departments, regulators, industry and international partners to improve impact assessments, contingency planning, exercising and public communications.