The UK Public Survey of Risk Perception, Resilience and Preparedness is a nationally representative survey of adults in the UK, carried out in order to understand what people think about different types of emergencies, and what steps – if any – they have taken to prepare for them. It is conducted to inform future public communications on preparing for emergencies. These are the headline findings from the first survey, conducted in 2025.
The 2025 survey was funded by the Cabinet Office and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). The Behavioural Science and Insights Unit at the UK Health Security Agency assisted with survey design and quality assurance.
This publication provides the headline findings from the survey, which ran between 11th March to 8th April 2025. The sample size for the 2025 survey was 10,536 adults (age 18+).
Throughout this report we refer to emergencies and disasters. For the purposes of this survey, emergency/disaster was defined to respondents as ‘any large-scale incident that could have significant impacts on health, life, property, or environment.’ Respondents were encouraged to think in terms of events that could impact a number of people within an area, rather than an incident occurring to only one individual.
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The purpose of this data release is to present high-level findings, not detailed statistical analysis of this data. Further analysis will be carried out by the Behavioural Science and Insights Unit at the UK Health Security Agency with an additional report published on GOV.UK in due course.
Read the headline findings in full below.
Source: UK Government: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-public-survey-of-risk-perception-resilience-and-preparedness-2025
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