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Immigration Controls: Ebola

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support border and immigration officials to deal with people coming to the UK with possible cases of the Ebola virus.

answeredHome Office

About this written question

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
18 May 2026
Target answer date
20 May 2026
Answer
27 May 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support border and immigration officials to deal with people coming to the UK with possible cases of the Ebola virus.

  2. 20 May 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 May 2026

    Answer published

    The current Ebola outbreak poses a low risk to the UK population. Border Force officers adhere to Home Office Communicable Disease guidance, which outlines the most common infections that may be acquired from animals, plants, and other sources. In the eve...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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