In the aftermath of the Y2K bug scare, the fuel protests of 2000, flooding in autumn 2000, and the foot and mouth epidemic of 2001 the UK government felt that the existing emergency management policies and structures were inadequate to deal with natural or man-made disasters, and formed the Civil Contingencies Secretariat in July 2001, located in the Cabinet Office. Soon after the &lt;a href="September%2011%20attacks"&gt;9/11 attacks&lt;/a&gt; the remit of the CCS was expanded to include mitigating the consequences of a large scale terrorist attack.