Defence secretary urges public and firms to prepare for cyber and climate disruption

Minister: prepare for supply chain disruption

• Members of the public and businesses need to think more about how they would cope with natural disasters, cyber-attacks or state-sponsored terrorism, the defence secretary has said. • The government wants to improve the UK's preparedness for emergencies, including those caused by increasingly likely severe weather events and cyber-attacks by hostile states. • He was speaking on Thursday at the opening of the UK Gun Hall Plant in Telford, Shropshire, and said the country needed a national conversation about resilience and supply chain disruption.