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.
The committee is generally referred to as COBRA, after the room in which it meets.
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- Disaster preparedness in the United Kingdom
- Committees of the United Kingdom Cabinet Office
- United Kingdom politics stubs
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