Question follow-through · 12666
African Swine Fever: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's guidance entitled African swine fever: how to spot and report the disease, updated on 27 September 2024, whether he plans to ban all personal imports
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 4 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 4 Dec 2024 · 30 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's guidance entitled African swine fever: how to spot and report the disease, updated on 27 September 2024, whether he plans to ban all personal imports
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Dec 2024
Answer published
Preventing an outbreak of African swine fever in the UK is one of Defra’s key biosecurity priorities. The Department keeps policy on personal imports under constant review and works closely with the devolved governments on contingency planning and prevent...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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