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Threat levels have no expiry date, so the date shown is when the official page last changed."},{"id":"uk-metoffice-warnings","category":"National alerts","subcategory":null,"title":"Severe weather warnings in force","value":"None in force","sub":"No Met Office warnings are currently in force for the UK","period":"Current","asOf":"2026-10-11T23:39:02.912Z","nextDue":null,"cadence":"Issued and withdrawn continuously","status":"ok","source":"Met Office · NSWWS","sourceUrl":"https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings","derivedFrom":null,"note":"Read live from the Met Office warnings feed (feed timestamp Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:00:31 GMT). Colours are the Met Office's own impact/likelihood matrix; this service does not assign them."},{"id":"uk-flood-warnings","category":"National alerts","subcategory":null,"title":"Flood alerts and warnings in force","value":"2 in force","sub":"0 severe flood warnings · 0 flood warnings · 2 flood alerts","period":"Current","asOf":"2026-10-11T23:39:03.072Z","nextDue":null,"cadence":"Updated every 15 minutes","status":"ok","source":"Environment Agency","sourceUrl":"https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/alerts-and-warnings","derivedFrom":null,"note":"Counts are the Environment Agency's own published records for England, excluding areas where a warning is no longer in force. 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No level is assumed — check the official UKHSA service."},{"id":"uk-air-quality","category":"National alerts","subcategory":null,"title":"Air pollution index, highest forecast","value":"3 · Low","sub":"Highest index forecast today across 5886 Defra forecast sites","period":"Today's forecast","asOf":"2026-10-11T23:39:03.646Z","nextDue":null,"cadence":"Forecast issued daily","status":"ok","source":"Defra · UK-AIR","sourceUrl":"https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/forecasting/","derivedFrom":null,"note":"Defra's published Daily Air Quality Index, banded 1-10 by COMEAP. 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The Scottish Government standard is 95%."},{"id":"nhs-scot-waits-inpatient","category":"NHS & doctors","subcategory":"Waiting lists","title":"Patients waiting for inpatient or day-case treatment","value":"157,485","sub":"16,014 of them waiting over 52 weeks · Scotland","period":"Month ending 31/08/2026","asOf":"2026-08-31T00:00:00Z","nextDue":null,"cadence":"Monthly","status":"ok","source":"Public Health Scotland","sourceUrl":"https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset/stage-of-treatment-waiting-times","derivedFrom":null,"note":"Published ongoing-wait totals for NHS Scotland, all specialties combined, as issued by Public Health Scotland."},{"id":"nhs-scot-waits-outpatient","category":"NHS & doctors","subcategory":"Waiting lists","title":"Patients waiting for a first outpatient appointment","value":"506,512","sub":"14,116 of them waiting over 52 weeks · Scotland","period":"Month ending 31/08/2026","asOf":"2026-08-31T00:00:00Z","nextDue":null,"cadence":"Monthly","status":"ok","source":"Public Health Scotland","sourceUrl":"https://www.opendata.nhs.scot/dataset/stage-of-treatment-waiting-times","derivedFrom":null,"note":"Published ongoing-wait totals for NHS Scotland, all specialties combined, as issued by Public Health Scotland."},{"id":"uk-foreign-aid","category":"Finance","subcategory":"Foreign aid","title":"Total UK foreign aid spend","value":"£13.04bn","sub":"Official development assistance, cash terms · grant equivalent basis","period":"2025","asOf":null,"nextDue":null,"cadence":"Annual; provisional in April, final in the autumn","status":"ok","source":"OECD DAC Table DAC1 (UK government return) / FCDO","sourceUrl":"https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?fs[0]=Topic%2C0%7CDevelopment%23DEV%23&df[ds]=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df[id]=DSD_DAC1%40DF_DAC1","derivedFrom":null,"note":"Reported by the UK government to the OECD DAC. 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Scotland's and Northern Ireland's censuses publish separately."},{"id":"uk-foreign-born-population","category":"Population & migration","subcategory":"Population","title":"Non-UK-born population","value":"10,017,972","sub":"16.8% of usual residents · England and Wales, by region of birth","period":"Census day, 21 March 2021","asOf":"2022-11-02","nextDue":null,"cadence":"Every ten years (next census 2031)","status":"ok","source":"ONS · Census 2021, table TS004 (Country of birth)","sourceUrl":"https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/c2021ts004","derivedFrom":"All usual residents minus those born in the United Kingdom, both as published in TS004","note":"Census counts for England and Wales. 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