![]() ![]() UK Leadership, Governance and Coordination: formalise central leadership, governance and accountabilities to strengthen collective decision making and preparedness across the UK. In addition, three crosscutting enablers run through all four pillars and are drawn out separately: Respond to biological risks that have reached the UK or UK interests to lessen their impact and to enable a rapid return to business as usual. Prevent biological risks from emerging (where possible) or from threatening the UK and UK interests.ĭetect, characterise and report biological risks when they do emerge as early and reliably as possible. Understand the biological risks we face today and could face in the future. The Strategy describes the four pillars of our response to biological risks: Part Two sets out our strategic framework, including how we will organise to deliver the priority outcomes. Part One describes the strategic drivers and context for the strategy, the nature of the risks we face out to 2030, and the opportunities for UK growth and strategic advantage. Our mission: To implement a UK-wide approach to biosecurity which strengthens deterrence and resilience, projects global leadership, and exploits opportunities for UK prosperity and science and technology (S&T) advantage. ![]() Our vision is that, by 2030, the UK is resilient to a spectrum of biological threats, and a world leader in responsible innovation, making a positive impact on global health, economic and security outcomes. It provides the overarching strategic framework for mitigating biological risks within which a number of threat and disease specific UK strategies critically contribute. This Strategy sets out our renewed vision, mission, outcomes and plans to protect the UK and our interests from significant biological risks, no matter how these occur and no matter who or what they affect. As the last five years has shown, this work could not be more important. The UK is well positioned not just to respond to the biological threats of the future, but to seize the opportunities associated with tackling them - stimulating growth, creating high tech jobs and attracting investment across the country. We have the highest number of unicorn companies in Europe, and we are the continent’s leading biotech hub in breakthrough life-sciences start-ups. We are home to some of the best universities in the world. This strategy plays to our strengths as a country. We will continue to work with like-minded partners and allies globally to move away from the ‘one bug, one drug’ approach of the 20th century, and to ensure the biotechnology innovations of the future are used to help improve our lives and the health of the planet, rather than as a tool for spreading fear. Our vision is that by 2030 the UK is resilient to a spectrum of biological threats and a world leader in innovation. Launching a real-time Biothreats Radar to monitor threats and risks as and when they appearĮstablishing a dedicated minister for the Biological Security Strategy, who will report regularly to ParliamentĬarrying out regular domestic and international exercisesĬreating a UK Biosecurity Leadership Council, to work with businesses and organisations on the ground This new Biological Security Strategy contains a number of new commitments to achieve those aims, including: We can defeat the threats of the future - but only if we refuse to stand still, and instead continue to innovate and strengthen our health resilience to protect the future wellbeing and economic security of the UK. The partnerships forged between the public, private and philanthropic sectors, allied in their determination to defeat the virus, were an unqualified success, saving countless lives. Second, the pandemic demonstrated the sheer ingenuity and innovation of the UK’s Life Sciences sector, including the phenomenal success of the COVID-19 vaccine development and rollout programme. ![]() Those threats have only multiplied in recent years, and they overlap and intersect with each other in increasingly complex ways. And it has taught us a number of things since the last Biological Security Strategy was published in 2018.įirst, our world is increasingly vulnerable to biological threats with catastrophic impacts - whether it is another pandemic, a terrorist attack or antimicrobial resistance. It has been the biggest crisis the UK has faced in generations, and the greatest peacetime challenge in a century. It ravaged health systems, destroyed economies and damaged livelihoods. To date, the COVID-19 pandemic has killed over 200,000 people in the UK, close to seven million globally. In the dark days of 20, we witnessed the devastating impact of a novel infectious disease outbreak spreading across the world. Foreword Deputy Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ![]()
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