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The Minister for Europe and the Americas, Sir Alan Duncan, said:
I am utterly appalled by the decision of the sham-democratic Constituent Assembly in Venezuela to remove...
Updated: Spreadsheets updated
Information about allocations is available for:
UK England 10-metres-and-under pool, non-sector pool and producer organisations by fisheries administration
Updated: BIT assessment - Monitoring marine licensing returns added
BIT assessments. contribute towards the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) target of £470 million ...
Use this form if you are applying on the basis of your human rights, and you are destitute and can’t pay the fee to extend your stay.
Updated: Spreadsheets updated
Information about allocations is available for:
UK England 10-metres-and-under pool, non-sector pool and producer organisations by fisheries administration
Updated: BIT assessment - Monitoring marine licensing returns added
BIT assessments. contribute towards the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) target of £470 million ...
A request was made under the Freedom of Information Act for a copy of the speed limit order for the southbound exit slip road from the A47 (formerly A12) onto the A143.
Updated: Updated guidance published.
UK Visas and Immigration guidance about the tariff-expired removal scheme (TERS) for foreign offenders.
FOI 0180-17 relates to the FCO’s facilities management contracts
FOI 0615-17 relates to boundaries of the State of Israel
Use this form if you are applying on the basis of your human rights, and you are destitute and can’t pay the fee to extend your stay.
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) sets monthly catch limits for quota species to ensure the UK stays within the overall limit set by the EU. These limits apply to all under 10 meter vessels and the over...
Updated: Amended August 2017
A full list of consular fees.
Updated: Added a Disability Confident branding guide.
Through the Disability Confident campaign, the government is working with employers to remove barriers, increase understanding and ensure that...
Updated: Added updated SEAT handbook sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
The MOD sustainability and environmental appraisal tools (SEAT) handbook is the single point of reference for the suite of appraisal...
Updated: Added VAPC Yorkshire and Yorkshire Humber: meeting minutes 3 May 2017.
Meeting minutes for the Yorkshire and Humber Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committee (VAPC).
Updated: Added updated list of VAPC Yorkshire and Humber committee members.
Current Yorkshire and Humber Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committee members.
Updated: New version added.
Analytical equipment specification for the screening of cystic fibrosis (CF) and congenital hypothyroidism (CHT) for the newborn blood spot screening programme.
Updated: Added updated letter template.
Screening laboratories can use this template to notify GPs of a possible carrier blood spot screening result for the cystic fibrosis (CF) gene.
Updated: Updated form added.
Healthcare staff need to complete this form, within 24 hours of giving the parents results of a confirmed carrier screening result for cystic fibrosis (CF). Return the form ...
Updated: PDF updated to include logo in Annex D
Patient capital supports small firms to grow into large, world-leading businesses. These firms increase productivity by introducing new ideas into markets...
Updated: Updated with latest HM Treasury notices 21/08/2017 ISIL (Da’esh) and Al Qaida organisations
UN Security Council Resolution 1267 (1999)This resolution (and its successor resolutions) requires...
Updated: RA4964 added to NPA 17/20 as was missed off the initial release of the NPA.
If consultation is to be undertaken on an amendment to the regulations or the implementation of new regulation, the Military...
This document is relevant to:
employers wanting to recruit an apprentice training organisations working with employers to make the apprenticeships availableThe approved standard outlines the skills...
This report is part of a series, commissioned by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) intended to establish how different types of ACM panels in combination with different types of insulation...
The government is undertaking large scale testing of cladding systems to understand better how 3 different types of Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) panels behave in combination with different types of insulation...
Updated: Uploaded assessment plan
This document is relevant to:
employers wanting to recruit an apprentice training organisations working with employers to make the apprenticeships available <...
Updated: uploaded assessment plan
This document is relevant to:
employers wanting to recruit an apprentice training organisations working with employers to make the apprenticeships available <...
Updated: uploaded assessment plan
This document is relevant to:
employers wanting to recruit an apprentice training organisations working with employers to make the apprenticeships available <...
Updated: Added Dartmoor firing times for week commencing 21 August 2017.
The firing times are presented in 2 file formats. The PDF format is web browseable and accessible on mobile devices such as Blackberry...
Updated: added employer to list and uploaded assessment plan
This document is relevant to:
employers wanting to recruit an apprentice training organisations working with employers to make the...
This document is relevant to:
employers wanting to recruit an apprentice training organisations working with employers to make the apprenticeships availableThe approved standard outlines the skills...
A request was made under the Freedom of Information Act for a copy of the speed limit order for the southbound exit slip road from the A47 (formerly A12) onto the A143.
Updated: Updated guidance published.
UK Visas and Immigration guidance about the tariff-expired removal scheme (TERS) for foreign offenders.
FOI 0180-17 relates to the FCO’s facilities management contracts
FOI 0615-17 relates to boundaries of the State of Israel
Updated: Amended section 6 on Intellectual Property
This report looks at issues UK businesses may face when operating in the Cayman Islands including the economic and political environment, intellectual...
Use this form if you are applying on the basis of your human rights, and you are destitute and can’t pay the fee to extend your stay.
Sport is at a critical moment as new research shows high-profile doping stories are making people think the issue is widespread
School Children Get Set for Clean Sport in National Clean Sport Week
Adrian Canaveral banned for four years
Michael Lowis banned from all sport for four years
Carl Lamb banned from all sport
Youth athletes receive pre-Games anti-doping education
Graham Hale banned from all sport for one year
Four New Members Appointed to UK Anti-Doping’s Board
UKAD Issues Warning Regarding Higenamine to Athletes
The 10 new ePassport gates at International Arrivals 2 were officially opened by Border Force Chief Operating Officer Emma Moore and Edinburgh Airport Chief Executive Gordon Dewar on Friday 18 August.
Drivers are advised that motorways and major A roads leading to the Leeds Festival site at Bramham Park are likely to be busy later this week (24 – 26 August) as music fans make their way to the site.
Updated: Tax Information Exchange Agreement with Uruguay/UK has been added.
2016 Uruguay - UK tax treaty: double taxation conventionThe double taxation convention was signed on 24 February 2016 and entered...
FOI 0585-17 relates to death and detention of Britons abroad
Updated: New version of FIS and data returns 2016 to 2017 known issues uploaded on 21 August 2017.
Funding Information System (FIS)FIS is one of a number of software packages freely available to further...
On 8 March 2017, BEIS asked all licensed electricity suppliers, Elexon Ltd and the Office for Gas and Electricity Markets E-Serve (Ofgem) for their views on a change to the reconciliation mechanism in the Warm...
Updated: Link to accessibility information added.
This guide applies to all private and public companies registered in the UK. It explains how an LFP will be imposed against a company if its accounts are...
Updated: Link to accessibility information added.
This guide applies to all LLPs registered in the UK. It explains how an LFP will be imposed against the LLP if its accounts are not filed by the filing ...
Updated: Updated August 2017
A full list of Consular fees in GBP (£) and their equivalent in local currency VEB (Bolivars).
Updated: Updated August 2017
Fees for consular certificates and documents are paid at the Embassy by Visa/MasterCard in Pounds or cash, in the US Dollars on the day of the application. Banknotes issued ...
Updated: Updated August 2017
A full list of consular fees
Updated: Amended August 2017
A full list of consular fees.
Updated: Added a Disability Confident branding guide.
Through the Disability Confident campaign, the government is working with employers to remove barriers, increase understanding and ensure that...
Updated: Added updated SEAT handbook sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
The MOD sustainability and environmental appraisal tools (SEAT) handbook is the single point of reference for the suite of appraisal...
Updated: Document updated; case reference 406841.
The table contains
case reference decision number (where relevant) amount and date of order who owes the money date the order was posted...
The Environment Agency consults the public on certain applications for waste operations, mining waste operations, installations, water discharge and groundwater activities. The arrangements are explained in its...
The Environment Agency consults the public on certain applications for waste operations, mining waste operations, installations, water discharge and groundwater activities. The arrangements are explained in its...
Updated: Added VAPC Yorkshire and Yorkshire Humber: meeting minutes 3 May 2017.
Meeting minutes for the Yorkshire and Humber Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committee (VAPC).
The Environment Agency consults the public on certain applications for waste operations, mining waste operations, installations, water discharge and groundwater activities. The arrangements are explained in its...
Updated: Added updated list of VAPC Yorkshire and Humber committee members.
Current Yorkshire and Humber Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committee members.
Updated: New version added.
Analytical equipment specification for the screening of cystic fibrosis (CF) and congenital hypothyroidism (CHT) for the newborn blood spot screening programme.
Updated: Added updated letter template.
Screening laboratories can use this template to notify GPs of a possible carrier blood spot screening result for the cystic fibrosis (CF) gene.
Updated: Updated form added.
Healthcare staff need to complete this form, within 24 hours of giving the parents results of a confirmed carrier screening result for cystic fibrosis (CF). Return the form ...
The Environment Agency consults the public on certain applications for waste operations, mining waste operations, installations, water discharge and groundwater activities. The arrangements are explained in its...
The Environment Agency consults the public on certain applications for waste operations, mining waste operations, installations, water discharge and groundwater activities. The arrangements are explained in its...
The Environment Agency consults the public on certain applications for waste operations, mining waste operations, installations, water discharge and groundwater activities. The arrangements are explained in its...
Updated: PDF updated to include logo in Annex D
Patient capital supports small firms to grow into large, world-leading businesses. These firms increase productivity by introducing new ideas into markets...
Updated: Updated with latest HM Treasury notices 21/08/2017 ISIL (Da’esh) and Al Qaida organisations
The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation is responsible for the implementation and administration...
Updated: Updated with latest HM Treasury notices 21/08/2017 ISIL (Da’esh) and Al Qaida organisations
UN Security Council Resolution 1267 (1999)This resolution (and its successor resolutions) requires...
Updated: RA4964 added to NPA 17/20 as was missed off the initial release of the NPA.
If consultation is to be undertaken on an amendment to the regulations or the implementation of new regulation, the Military...
This document is relevant to:
employers wanting to recruit an apprentice training organisations working with employers to make the apprenticeships availableThe approved standard outlines the skills...
This report is part of a series, commissioned by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) intended to establish how different types of ACM panels in combination with different types of insulation...
The government is undertaking large scale testing of cladding systems to understand better how 3 different types of Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) panels behave in combination with different types of insulation...
Updated: Uploaded assessment plan
This document is relevant to:
employers wanting to recruit an apprentice training organisations working with employers to make the apprenticeships available <...
Updated: uploaded assessment plan
This document is relevant to:
employers wanting to recruit an apprentice training organisations working with employers to make the apprenticeships available <...
Updated: uploaded assessment plan
This document is relevant to:
employers wanting to recruit an apprentice training organisations working with employers to make the apprenticeships available <...
Updated: Added Dartmoor firing times for week commencing 21 August 2017.
The firing times are presented in 2 file formats. The PDF format is web browseable and accessible on mobile devices such as Blackberry...
Updated: added employer to list and uploaded assessment plan
This document is relevant to:
employers wanting to recruit an apprentice training organisations working with employers to make the...
This document is relevant to:
employers wanting to recruit an apprentice training organisations working with employers to make the apprenticeships availableThe approved standard outlines the skills...
Four New Members Appointed to UK Anti-Doping’s Board
UKAD Issues Warning Regarding Higenamine to Athletes
Updated: Added link to questions answers on NHS England website.
Latest updateA list of questions and answers on the PrEP impact trial is available on the NHS England website.
Previous updates...
These large scale tests will allow experts to better understand how different types of cladding panels behave with different types of insulation in a fire. The results of the first 5 tests have already...
Data covers:
payroll staff by grade non-payroll staff by type headcount staff numbers full-time equivalent staff numbers staff costsThese figures are not official statistics. They are internal...
Updated: The ILR funding returns guidance for 2017 to 2018 and slide presentation has been added
Colleges, providers, schools and academies receive annual funding allocations from the Education and Skills...
Updated: updating for 21 Aug 2017 consultation
The Environment Agency and Leicester City Council are working together in partnership to develop an integrated Flood Risk Management Strategy (IFRMS) for the...
We are consulting on a draft railways infrastructure regulation guidance and new ORR economic enforcement policy which reflect powers transferred in Northern Ireland regulations. The NI rail regulations confer...
We are seeking views on a proposed:
general approval for freight facility access, replacing the approval in the ‘Freight Facility (Ports and Terminals) General Approval 2011’ guidance for facility...
Updated: Added drinking water scheme: distribution W176 report.
For more information, please email foodeqa@phe.gov.uk.
The functional review of bodies providing expert advice to government was undertaken in order to:
establish a framework that optimises the creation, provision, dissemination and use of independent expert...
Updated: Childhood Influenza Vaccination Programme 2017 to 2018 ImmForm user guide uploaded.
Childhood Flu Vaccination Programme 2017 to 2018 ImmForm Data Collection: User guide for local, NHS England teams...
Updated: Added legionella isolation scheme: distribution G108 EQA report.
The legionella isolation scheme includes samples containing a range of different serogroups of Legionella pneumophila and Legionella...
Updated: Added recreational and surface water scheme: distribution S79 report.
This scheme is suitable for laboratories that routinely monitor for indicator organisms and pathogens in:
bathing beaches...
It is in the interests of both the UK and the EU to ensure a smooth and orderly withdrawal in regard to the availability of goods in the UK and EU markets.
We recognise that investors, businesses and ...
This paper states that the UK recognises the importance of continuing to respect obligations of confidentiality and to protect information exchanged while it was a Member State, and that arrangements agreed with...
Updated: IST handbook updated to version 3.0
The in-service testing (IST) handbook is a culmination of the IST group 1 and 2 and the IST group 3 report. It is designed to provide stakeholders...
Updated: Published Tax avoidance litigation decisions 2016 to 2017
Tax avoidance involves trying to use the tax system to gain an advantage that Parliament never intended. It often involves contrived, artificial...
Updated: Update on Legalisation Guidance
The first is to get the document legalised by the Legalisation Office in the UK. The second is to have your document legalised by the Qatar Embassy in London. The...
Updated: Appointment of non executive directors to NHS Business Services Authority.
Details about appointments made to the Department’s public bodies and expert committees.
For further information...
If you’ve been affected by technical issues, you may be able to get the government top-up as a one-off payment for Tax-Free Childcare. We’ll also consider refunding any reasonable costs directly caused by the...
Updated: Update on Police Clearance Guidance
Posts issue a range of legal documents for British nationals. Find out more.
Updated: Updated Chickenpox (varicella-zoster) immunoglobulin guidance to clarify dose of methotrexate on page 10.
Immunoglobulins are concentrated antibody preparations which provide immediate short-term...
Updated: Amendment to Safe supplies: supplementary data tables and figures, 2015: tables 1.2, 1.4 and 1.7 have been revised.
For earlier annual reviews, see the archived health protection website
Updated: New letter templates uploaded August 2017
Use these templates to inform hospitals or accident and emergency departments about a child with an inherited metabolic disease:
glutaric aciduria...
Updated: Updated versions of letter templates added.
Use these letter templates to inform specialist or designated inherited metabolic disease (IMD) teams and clinicians about a child with a newborn blood...
The decisions set out:
names of CAC panel members name of the case manager issue in dispute views of the parties considerations of the panel final decision
Updated: Updated versions of letter templates added.
These documents are for inherited metabolic disease specialist teams to confirm a child’s diagnosis for an inherited metabolic disease:
maple...
Updated: Added updated versions of letter templates.
These documents are for inherited metabolic disease specialist or designated teams to confirm a suspected positive screen for:
maple syrup urine...
Updated: Added new version of letter template.
Letter template to tell clinicians a newborn blood spot screen has found a baby to have raised phenylalanine and tyrosine.
The letter specifies that...
Updated: Added updated version of letter template.
Screening laboratories should liaise with the lead metabolic clinicians to complete and submit this form, which notifies the national programme of cases...
FOI 0556-17 relates to staff travel
Updated: updated 21 August 2017
A full list of Consular fees
Decision reference: ADA3333
Type of decision: objection to admission arrangements - partially upheld
School type: academy
School phase: secondary
Local authority: Newcastle city...
Updated: Updated with details of how to submit a representation for Autumn Budget 2017
Guidance on how to submit a Budget representation, which is a written representation from an interest group, individual...
Updated: Tax Information Exchange Agreement with Uruguay/UK has been added.
2016 Uruguay - UK tax treaty: double taxation conventionThe double taxation convention was signed on 24 February 2016 and entered...
FOI 0585-17 relates to death and detention of Britons abroad
Updated: New version of FIS and data returns 2016 to 2017 known issues uploaded on 21 August 2017.
Funding Information System (FIS)FIS is one of a number of software packages freely available to further...
On 8 March 2017, BEIS asked all licensed electricity suppliers, Elexon Ltd and the Office for Gas and Electricity Markets E-Serve (Ofgem) for their views on a change to the reconciliation mechanism in the Warm...
Updated: Link to accessibility information added.
This guide applies to all private and public companies registered in the UK. It explains how an LFP will be imposed against a company if its accounts are...
Updated: Link to accessibility information added.
This guide applies to all LLPs registered in the UK. It explains how an LFP will be imposed against the LLP if its accounts are not filed by the filing ...
Updated: Updated August 2017
A full list of Consular fees in GBP (£) and their equivalent in local currency VEB (Bolivars).
Updated: Updated August 2017
Fees for consular certificates and documents are paid at the Embassy by Visa/MasterCard in Pounds or cash, in the US Dollars on the day of the application. Banknotes issued ...
Updated: Updated August 2017
A full list of consular fees
A major feat of engineering takes place this week as the stern section of the new polar research ship for Britain, the RRS Sir David Attenborough, is transported by barge from Hebburn-based shipyard A&P Tyne...
The UK and France commanded a multinational naval task force which has scored eight drugs busts over the period, seizing 1.75 tonnes of narcotics worth nearly £400m, including 265kg of heroin and 455kg...
Highways England is lifting more than 98 per cent of roadworks to help people travelling over the August bank holiday - and motorists are being urged to make sure their vehicles are ready for the journey.
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A flood and coastal group will oversee spending of almost £22million to protect hundreds of homes across the north east as it sets out its objectives for the next year.
The Northumbria Regional...
In July:
HM Land Registry completed more than 1,619,100 applications the South East topped the table of regional applications with 380,869 Birmingham topped the table of applications by local authority...
IntroductionThe following advice is intended to help all those planning to visit San Marino for the San Marino v Northern Ireland football match to be held on Friday 1st September. Kick-off is 20:45hrs local...
The position papers outlining the UK’s negotiating approach to goods on the market and to confidentiality and access to official documents have been published today ahead of the third round of negotiations.
The Environment Agency is conducting its annual test of the flood sirens in Grimsby and Cleethorpes on Friday 25 August.
Installed in 2007, the 18 sirens help warn over 25,000 households and local businesses...
Up to 2,300 runners are expected to take part in the fourth running of the half-marathon, which starts on the western (Chepstow) end of the Severn Bridge, on the motorway itself, and finishes, after crossing ...
Anyone caught fishing with an illegal cast net in North East waters will be prosecuted, the Environment Agency has warned.
The warning follows the seizure of a cast net from an angler caught using it ...
Dr Frances AkorFrances Akor is a Consultant Pharmacist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and a member of the General Pharmaceutical Council’s Fitness to Practise and Investigating Committees. She was...
Updated: Added 3 SSAC FOI responses: 1) Nature of business travel and the procurement and usage of vehicle ownership, lease or rental 2) Payments to celebrities 3) IT and information security and compliance of...
Updated: Latest Investment & Risk Update for July 2017.
A round-up of forecasts and data with a special focus feature in each issue.
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The Environment Agency consults the public on certain applications for waste operations, mining waste operations, installations, water discharge and groundwater activities. The arrangements are explained in its...
Updated: Service issues has been updated to advise that customers using Verify to access online services are now able to request a repayment and claim to reduce payments on account.
Latest updates on the...
Updated: Updated spreadsheet shows open academies and academy projects in development in August 2017.
These spreadsheets show:
the total number of open academies in England details of schools...
Updated: Updated July 2017
This report looks at the intellectual property, organized crime, human rights, bribery and corruption and terrorism risks that UK businesses may face when operating in Bosnia ...
Updated: The third round of the Mutuals Interim Support Fund is now open until Friday 29 September 2017.
The Mutuals Interim Support Fund (MISF) will award grants of up to £25,000 for organisations...
Updated: Updated apprenticeship standards: funding bands spreadsheet.
The list of apprenticeship standards shows the funding bands for starts from 1 May 2017. It lists the apprenticeship standards
Updated: The MAIB is investigating the collision between two F4 powerboats on Stewartby Lake, Bedfordshire on 2 July 2017 which resulted in the capsize of one of the powerboats and serious injury to the driver...
Updated: Added report for week 33, 2017.
This report compares the current week’s data on statutory notifications of causative agents to that of the previous 5 weeks.
Older weekly NOIDS causative...
Updated: Daily update of the unclaimed estates list
The Division publishes a list of unclaimed estates which have been recently referred, but not yet administered, and historic cases which have been administered...
An internationally recognised trade expert with over 25 years of experience, Crawford will lead trade policy and the development of trade negotiation capability at DIT, following a global recruitment campaign...
Highways England is lifting more than 98 per cent of roadworks to help people travelling over the August bank holiday - and motorists are being urged to make sure their vehicles are ready for the journey.
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Highways England has today (Monday 21 August) announced the appointment of Peter Mumford as Exec Director to lead major projects until a permanent successor is appointed.
Peter is a senior director with...
Highways England is advising drivers traffic is likely to be busy around the M56 and M6 over the forthcoming late summer bank holiday weekend with up to 60,000 dance music lovers heading to the annual Creamfields...
The Environment Agency has joined forces with expert anglers to carry out an important survey to assess the numbers of a highly prized fish in Northumberland.
Surveys for Dace, the main species of coarse...
Updated: Updated versions of both documents added.
These documents explain the incident management procedures for NHS screening programme providers and commissioners and provide a form for notifying incidents...
Updated: Clarification on parking procedures for Blue Badge holders, updated links and minor text changes.
This document gives information about the Blue Badge scheme, how it works in England, and a user...
Updated: Updated weekly prices and dataset.
Weekly publications give the average wholesale prices of selected home-grown horticultural produce. The prices are national averages of the most usual prices ...
Updated: Added 3 SSAC FOI responses: 1) Nature of business travel and the procurement and usage of vehicle ownership, lease or rental 2) Payments to celebrities 3) IT and information security and compliance of...
The Government has carried out research with UK registered charities to explore their awareness, attitudes and experiences around cyber security.
This is part of the Government’s National Cyber Security...
The Cyber Governance Health Check assesses and reports levels of cyber security awareness and preparedness in FTSE 350 companies (the UK’s 350 largest firms.) This report contains results from the 2017 Cyber ...
Updated: Updated with the response to the consultation
Pension scams can cost people their life savings, and leave people facing retirement with limited income, and little or no opportunity to build their...
Official statistics are produced impartially and free from political influence.
Official statistics are produced impartially and free from political influence.
Updated: Updated versions of both documents added.
These documents explain the incident management procedures for NHS screening programme providers and commissioners and provide a form for notifying incidents...
Updated: Clarification on parking procedures for Blue Badge holders, updated links and minor text changes.
This document gives information about the Blue Badge scheme, how it works in England, and a user...
Updated: Updated weekly prices and dataset.
Weekly publications give the average wholesale prices of selected home-grown horticultural produce. The prices are national averages of the most usual prices ...
The Government has carried out research with UK registered charities to explore their awareness, attitudes and experiences around cyber security.
This is part of the Government’s National Cyber Security...
The Cyber Governance Health Check assesses and reports levels of cyber security awareness and preparedness in FTSE 350 companies (the UK’s 350 largest firms.) This report contains results from the 2017 Cyber ...
Updated: Updated with the response to the consultation
Pension scams can cost people their life savings, and leave people facing retirement with limited income, and little or no opportunity to build their...
New reports highlight scale of the cyber security and data protection challenge One in ten FTSE 350 companies operate without a response plan for a cyber incident Only six per cent of businesses completely...
Following natural disasters, outbreaks of water borne diseases such as cholera can occur, particularly where there is a lack of access to clean water and sanitation. Given the scale of the disaster in Freetown...