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Foot and Mouth Disease: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help farmers prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
30 Jan 2025
Target answer date
3 Feb 2025
Answer
5 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help farmers prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease.

  2. 3 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    Following confirmation of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in Germany on the 10 January 2025, the Government took decisive action to protect the UK by suspending the commercial import of susceptible animals from Germany and restricting personal imports of ani...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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