Question follow-through · 72566

Disease Control: Monitoring

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 27 of the National Security Strategy 2025, published on 24 June 2025, who will be responsible for the creating of a Biothreats Radar.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body
Cabinet Office
Tabled
29 Aug 2025
Target answer date
2 Sept 2025
Answer
2 Sept 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 27 of the National Security Strategy 2025, published on 24 June 2025, who will be responsible for the creating of a Biothreats Radar.

  2. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The Cabinet Office’s National Situation Centre is responsible for creating the Biothreats Radar. The Radar brings together information on human, animal, and plant health risks to create a powerful, near real-time view of emerging biological threats and th...

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