Question follow-through · 3210
Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's Pandemic Preparedness Strategy: building our capabilities, published on 25 March 2026, what type of pathogens the strategy is concerned with.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2026 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's Pandemic Preparedness Strategy: building our capabilities, published on 25 March 2026, what type of pathogens the strategy is concerned with.
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2026
Answer published
A pandemic would most likely be caused by a virus, though it could also be by bacteria or fungi. The Pandemic Preparedness Strategy acknowledges that no two pandemics are identical, and that a future pandemic could spread through one or more routes of tra...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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