that having to intervene in the strikes response was a distraction from the military’s main job. He said: “We’re not spare capacity. We’re busy and we’re doing lots of things on behalf of the nation. We’ve got to focus on our primary role.”
The decision to launch a new resilience framework was partly driven by the failure of the Government to have a comprehensive plan when the the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020,understands. A source said: “In pandemic planning the focus was always on the health response, but as we found out it needed to go a lot wider than that.”
Details of the scheme are still being finalised and are expected to be announced in the coming days to give companies as much notice as possible.roughly the same unit cost as applies to householdsThe Chancellor is expected to say that from April, they will pay a higher price – but is likely to scrap previous proposals to focus support only on companies designated as vulnerable.