Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what learning were shared with his Department after Exercise Cygnus in October 2016.

HM Treasury participated in Exercise Cygnus in 2016. The aim of Exercise Cygnus was to assess the UK’s preparedness and response to a pandemic influenza that was close to the UK’s worst-case planning scenarios. The Government accepted all the recommendations from Exercise Cygnus. The lessons identified from the exercise have been incorporated into an on-going programme of work on the Government’s pandemic flu response plans.