Question follow-through · 34065
Avian Influenza: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to provide compensation to poultry farmers who have had eggs destroyed as a result of Avian flu.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 26 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 5 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
26 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to provide compensation to poultry farmers who have had eggs destroyed as a result of Avian flu.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Mar 2025
Answer published
Compensation paid for birds culled by the Government for disease control purposes is designed to promote prompt reporting of suspicion of disease and is only payable for healthy birds as set out in the Animal Health Act 1981. There is no compensation avai...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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