Question follow-through · 2940

Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the UK’s preparedness for (a) mpox and (b) future outbreaks and pandemics.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 30 Aug 2024
Target answer date: 4 Sept 2024
Answer: 6 Sept 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

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Recorded timeline

30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the UK’s preparedness for (a) mpox and (b) future outbreaks and pandemics.
4 Sept 2024
Target answer date
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6 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Secretary of State and I have met regularly with officials from the Department, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the National Health Service on this issue.UKHSA will continue to keep the global situation and our domestic preparations under cl...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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