A number of government departments and services are struggling with the Microsoft outage.

Microsoft 365 Services across the world, including Teams, Outlook and Copilot have been affected by an unexplained outage.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has said it is experiencing problems sending and receiving emails. Some services are affected, but phone lines are still working.

The Security Industry Authority has said that some systems are affected. They have reported that they can still grant, refuse, revoke and suspend licences, but response times may be slower.

Other organisations such as the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, the Insolvency Service and Ofsted have also reported problems with emails and online forms.

Meanwhile, the National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC ) is recommending that everyone exercises caution around unexpected calls and messages, especially those containing links. Scammers could exploit the situation by claiming to be from IT help desks or Microsoft itself.