The army may be used to ease the disruption caused by strikes across the public sector, Nadhim Zahawi said.
Speaking on Sunday, the chairman of the Conservative Party said the Government was considering bringing in the army to drive ambulances to minimise disruption after the UK’s biggest trade union said workers will strike before Christmas.
"It is the right and responsible thing to do to have contingency plans in place," he told Sky News's Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme.
"We have a very strong team at Cobra who are doing a lot of the work in looking at what we need to do to minimise the disruption to people's lives.
"We have looking at the military, we are looking at a specialist response force which we have actually set up a number of years ago.
"We have to make sure are borders are always secure and that is something we guarantee. Things like driving ambulances and other parts of the public sector - we have got to try and minimise disruption."
Unison announced in the week that thousands of 999 call handlers, ambulance technicians, paramedics and their colleagues working for ambulance services in the Northeast, Northwest, London, Yorkshire and the Southwest will strike later this month.
Although no date has been confirmed, it is just the latest industry to announce action following persistent strikes by rail workers and the previously announced walk out by nurses.
As well as specific working conditions, the striking members have called for a rise to pay amid surging levels of inflation.
In defence of the Government, Mr Zahawi said the Russian invasion had caused high inflation and that the Prime Minister is trying to bring the rate, which stands at 11.1 per cent, back down through reasoned fiscal policy.
Claiming that Vladimir Putin has used the energy crisis as a weapon, Mr Zahawi said: “That energy use by Putin means we’ve had very high inflation rates and we’ve got to try and bring down inflation.
“If you chase inflation or above inflation then you will embed inflation for longer and hurt the most vulnerable in fact.”
