Question follow-through · 22090
Viral Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of human metapneumovirus have been identified in the UK.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jan 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of human metapneumovirus have been identified in the UK.
9 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jan 2025
Answer published
The UK Health Security Agency’s long-term surveillance of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in England, through systems covering general practice surgeries and hospital laboratories, indicates that hMPV levels in winter 2024-25 are in line with what we would e...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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