Question follow-through · 96616
Bluetongue Disease: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with devolved Administrations on ensuring best coordination to restrict the spread of Bluetongue in cattle and sheep.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 8 Dec 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with devolved Administrations on ensuring best coordination to restrict the spread of Bluetongue in cattle and sheep.
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Dec 2025
Answer published
Disease control policy is a devolved matter and it is for the Devolved Governments to assess the disease risks and impacts in relation to their national herds, alongside the impacts of controls, and respond accordingly. Defra works closely with the Devolv...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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