Question follow-through · 3820
Swine Fever: Africa
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of African swine fever on the pig industry.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of African swine fever on the pig industry.
5 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2024
Answer published
Whilst we have never had an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in the UK, the risk level for an incursion of ASF is currently assessed as medium and we continue to prepare for an outbreak. The practical impacts of a reasonable worst-case scenario outbr...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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