Question follow-through · 48045
Foot and Mouth Disease: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to proactively screen for foot and mouth disease outbreaks in the UK.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to proactively screen for foot and mouth disease outbreaks in the UK.
28 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
The UK has robust contingency plans in place to manage the risk of Foot and Mouth disease (FMD) as set out in the Foot and Mouth Disease Control Strategy for Great Britain supported by the Contingency plan for exotic notifiable diseases of animals in Engl...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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