Question follow-through · 25118
Foot and Mouth Disease: Germany
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions Ministers in his Department have had with their counterparts in the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in the Northern Ireland Executive
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 20 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 27 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions Ministers in his Department have had with their counterparts in the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in the Northern Ireland Executive
23 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Jan 2025
Answer published
In response to the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Germany, we are in contact with German counterparts to understand the latest situation and, as is routine procedure, we are working closely with the Devolved Governments to understand the risks to t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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