The National Security Risk Assessment, which sets out government’s assessment of the main risks facing the UK and its interests overseas, is classified. Government has published a summary of this assessment and of the mitigations it has put in place every two or three years since 2008.11 The last edition of this public-facing National Risk Register was published in December 2020.12 The Cabinet Office acknowledged that government has a chequered history in communicating risks to the public and stated that government’s messaging on risks should be more balanced, accessible to non-experts and lend itself to practical actions.13 It noted that clearer public communication of risks would help people make evidence-based choices on how to prepare for the impacts of risk events. It would also support government’s goal of engaging the wider population in government’s “judgments about what is an acceptable level of risk and what is the correct level of investment to prevent those risks in the future”. The Cabinet Office stated that clearer communication of risk is one of the foundational principles of the government’s resilience strategy, which had over one million different interactions and is due to be published in 2022.14