Question follow-through · 26096
Foot and Mouth Disease: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what additional checks have been put in place at UK border ports for animals, animal products and vehicles coming from (a) the area affected by Foot and Mouth disease and (b) Germany.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 23 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what additional checks have been put in place at UK border ports for animals, animal products and vehicles coming from (a) the area affected by Foot and Mouth disease and (b) Germany.
28 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Government has stepped up measures to prevent the spread of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), following a case being confirmed in Germany. The import of cattle, pigs and sheep and their untreated products from Germany to GB have now been banned to protect...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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