Question follow-through · 49114
Sugar Beet: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support the beet sugar industry to tackle Virus Yellows disease.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 29 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 May 2025
- Answer
- 8 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support the beet sugar industry to tackle Virus Yellows disease.
1 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 May 2025
Answer published
This Government acknowledges the critical role of sugar beet farmers in the UK's sugar production and their ongoing contributions to the agricultural sector. This Government recognises the challenge posed to sugar beet growers by Virus Yellows (VY), and w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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