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Treasury Minister James Murray says the government's new emergency push is about building "resilience" for the future. His comments follow an announcement by Defence Secretary Wes Streeting to plan for sudden emergencies such as cyberattacks or severe weather by keeping stock of food and water. Report by Johals. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The announcement about being prepared is about being generally prepared and more resilient for
00:04the future. This is not about preparing for a particular event or a threat that we're highlighting
00:08but we do know that we face a range of threats whether that's cyber attacks and state-sponsored
00:13cyber attacks, wildfires, flooding. We know that we need to be more resilient in the future and
00:19whilst government has a critical role to play in building our flood defences, our security
00:25from threats in the world of cyber, we also know that individual households can play a role too
00:30by having a small stock of water and some food elements for three days. That's the way that
00:37individual households can make sure they're more resilient too.

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