Question follow-through · 5558
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Ebola
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to pre-emptively position humanitarian support for countries bordering the Democratic Republic of the Congo if the current Ebola outbreak
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 1 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 8 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to pre-emptively position humanitarian support for countries bordering the Democratic Republic of the Congo if the current Ebola outbreak
3 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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8 Jun 2026
Answer published
Further to my statement to the House on 21 May (HCWS60), the Minister of State for International Development visited Kinshasa on 29 May to see first-hand how agencies on the ground are responding to the Ebola outbreak, with the support of the UK and other...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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