Question
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how the UK Resilience Academy is scaling its training capacity for local responders and civil servants.
Answer
The UK Government launched the UK Resilience Academy (UKRA) in April 2025 to strengthen preparedness, skills, and capability across all levels of government and civil society. To scale training capacity nationwide, the Academy operates a multi-channel delivery model combining residential learning at its core campus, The Hawkhills in North Yorkshire, with regionally delivered courses and an expanded range of digital resources. The Academy’s curriculum is open to all resilience practitioners and civil servants, and is built upon the updated Resilience and Emergencies National Occupational Standards, which were established following comprehensive national consultation with the resilience sector.
Verdict: AMBER (66/100)
The reply addresses the question about how training capacity will be scaled. It sets out concrete delivery methods (residential courses at the core campus, regionally delivered courses and expanded digital resources) and confirms the training is open to resilience practitioners and civil servants. It gives no numbers, locations or timelines for the expansion, so the asker would likely still need to ask for those specifics.
How we got there
| Question item | Coverage | Specificity | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|
| How the UK Resilience Academy is scaling its training capacity for local responders and civil servants. | Addressed | Direct | Statement 3 directly answers how training capacity is scaled, naming a multi-channel model of residential learning at the core campus, regionally delivered courses, and expanded digital resources, while statement 5 confirms the curriculum is open to resilience practitioners and civil servants, matching the question's audiences. The reply gives no numbers, places, or timelines for expansion, but the concrete delivery mechanisms are enough to count as a substantive answer. |