Question follow-through · 34493
Climate Change and Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to improve the UK's biosecurity resilience against (a) invasive species, (b) plant diseases, (c) animal diseases and (d) other emerging threats; and
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 27 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 12 Mar 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to improve the UK's biosecurity resilience against (a) invasive species, (b) plant diseases, (c) animal diseases and (d) other emerging threats; and
4 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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12 Mar 2025
Answer published
Our biosecurity is paramount – it underpins safe food; protects human, animal and plant health; and supports a prospering economy and trade. We have in place robust measures to maintain and improve our ability to understand, detect, prevent, respond and r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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