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Veterinary Services: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that veterinary medicine supply via Suitably Qualified Persons will continue to apply in Northern Ireland in the same was as the wider
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 18 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that veterinary medicine supply via Suitably Qualified Persons will continue to apply in Northern Ireland in the same was as the wider
18 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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18 Nov 2025
Answer published
We appreciate that there may be specific issues of concern and that access to an online retailer for pet owners to obtain veterinary medicines for their pets is of great importance. Through our extensive engagement across the supply chain, we are aware of...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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