Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many (a) female and (b) male burial operatives have been recruited (i) from the UK and (ii) from Sierra Leone to burial teams as part of her Department's response to the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone.
The UK is supporting the training and management of over 100 burial teams. DFID does not retain specific data on the total number of burial operatives in Sierra Leone.