FOI 2025/1239

1. How many multi-agency exercises have been conducted by your organisation within the last 3 years (1st May 2022 to 30th April 2025 inclusive).

2. What proportion of these multi-agency exercises were:
3. Tabletop / Scenario Based
4. Live Exercises

iii. Other (please state).

3. Please detail how post-exercise findings are fed back into the organisation and how any changes to policies and procedures are implemented as a result of this feedback.

4. What proportion of multi-agency exercises in the last 3 years:
5. Involved more than two CCA 2004 category one responder organisations (please detail) ii. Involved CCA 2004 category two responders (please detail) iii. Involved organisations from the voluntary and faith based sectors (please detail).

5. Please detail how the aims and objectives of the exercise are determined and communicated to the parties involved.

1. 8 exercises in total: Exercise Boreas (2022), Exercise Persephone (2023), Exercise Might Oak (2023) Exercise Boost (2024), Exercise Solaris (2025), Exercise Toucan in (2022-2025)

2.

1. 4 of 8 exercises (50%) were tabletop / scenario-based
2. 1 of 8 exercises (12.5%) was a live exercise

iii. 3 of 8 exercises (37.5%) were communications exercises

3. Post-exercise findings are fed back into the organisation through sharing of updates and exercise reports with appropriate recipients and leads, including the organisation’s Accountable Emergency Officer. Post-exercise findings are also disseminated to members of the Local Health Resilience Partnership. Feedback from exercises is reviewed by the organisation’s EPRR team with changes to policies and procedures made by the team as applicable.

4.

1. 5 of 8 exercises involved more than two CCA category one responder organisations. The exercises involved representatives from local authorities, police, ambulance, fire and rescue, NHS provider Trusts, NHS integrated care board, NHS England and UK Health Security Agency.
2. 2 of 8 exercises involved CCA category two responder organisations. Participation included Transport for Greater Manchester and Electricity North West.

iii. 2 of 8 exercises involved organisations from the voluntary and faith-based sectors. Participation included British Red Cross.

5. Exercise aims and objectives are determined in line with the need to validate plans/procedures or to address existing/emerging risks and the learning from incidents. An exercise planning group develops aims and objectives to meet the intended outcome(s).

Members of the planning group will communicate the exercise aims and objectives to relevant parties along with other details such as expected exercise participants, format, timings and venue. Exercise aims and objectives are also communicated within relevant meetings, groups and forums as well via emails and notifications to relevant parties. Exercise scoping documents that are shared with applicable contacts also include aims and objectives.