Question
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what post-incident review framework is triggered when an incident impacts multiple critical national infrastructure sectors simultaneously.
Answer
The Amber Book provides a national framework for crisis response, establishing clear roles and responsibilities and defining expectations across the lifecycle of a crisis. Learning lessons both during and after a crisis response is a core means of driving improvement in the way that government prepares for, responds to, and recovers from future emergencies across all sectors.
Verdict: AMBER (30/100)
The reply names a relevant national framework, the Amber Book, and says lessons are learned after a crisis. It does not state which mechanism is the post-incident review framework for multi-sector incidents, or how that review is triggered. The answer is therefore only partly responsive and largely hedged, and the person who asked would probably need to follow up for specifics.
How we got there
| Question item | Coverage | Specificity | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|
| What post-incident review framework is triggered when an incident impacts multiple critical national infrastructure sectors simultaneously? | Partially Addressed | Hedged | The reply names a specific national framework (the Amber Book) and says lessons are learned after a crisis, but it never says the Amber Book or any other mechanism is the post-incident review framework triggered by multi-sector incidents, or how that trigger works. It therefore gestures at the right subject without stating the concrete review mechanism the question asks for. |