Civil Contingencies Committee

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The Civil Contingencies Committee is a British cabinet committee chaired by the Home Secretary. It is intended to deal with major crises such as terrorism or natural disasters. It is supported by the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, which is part of the Cabinet Office.

The Civil Contingencies Committee, through the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, operates a website, UK Resilience, which is intended as a central source of public information on British civil defence and disaster preparedness activities.

Slightly confusingly, the committee is more commonly referred to as COBRA, which is actually the name of the facility in which the committee meets.

[edit] See also

• COBR
• Civil defence
• GTPS
• ACCOLC
• Intelligence and Security Committee

[edit] External links

• http://www.ukresilience.info/