Question follow-through · 58740
Animals: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the report by the National Audit Office entitled Resilience to Animal Diseases, published on 4 June 2025, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the UK's prep
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jun 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the report by the National Audit Office entitled Resilience to Animal Diseases, published on 4 June 2025, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the UK's prep
13 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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13 Jun 2025
Answer published
Defra and APHA actively assisted the National Audit Office in the collation of the data and information used to inform their report and will carefully work through the findings and recommendations to inform a plan for improvement. The National Audit Offic...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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