Question follow-through · 43053
Avian Influenza
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of bird flu.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 1 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
1 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of bird flu.
3 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 17 December 2024 to question UIN 19297. An updated outbreak assessment for highly pathogenic avian influenza in Great Britain and Europe was published by the Animal and Plant Health Agency on 18 March 2025, a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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