Question follow-through · 12324

China: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of seeking reparations from China for their alleged role in the (a) production and (b) release of covid-19.

answeredForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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Answering body: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tabled: 1 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 5 Nov 2024
Answer: 11 Nov 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

1 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of seeking reparations from China for their alleged role in the (a) production and (b) release of covid-19.
5 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Nov 2024
Answer published
The UK government has been clear that a robust, transparent, and science-led investigation into the origins of COVID must be an important part of the international effort to understand how the pandemic started and how it spread. We continue to support the...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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