Anticipate, react, recover: Resilient infrastructure systems

This report focuses on lessons learnt from previous disruptions and failures and the response of the United Kingdom’s energy, water, digital, road and rail infrastructure. The report states that a framework for resilience should deliver infrastructure that is resilient to a range of future challenges:

• the government should publish a full set of resilience standards every five years, following advice from regulators, alongside an assessment of any changes needed to deliver them;
• infrastructure operators should carry out regular and proportionate stress tests, overseen by regulators, to ensure their systems and services can meet the government’s resilience standards, and take actions to address any vulnerabilities;
• infrastructure operators should develop and maintain long term resilience strategies, and regulators should ensure their determinations in future price reviews are consistent with meeting resilience standards in the short and long term.