Question follow-through · 5963

Foot and Mouth Disease: Contamination

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the answer of 24 March 2026, to Question 113652, on Foot and Mouth Disease: Contamination, whether the Environment Agency has given any advice or guidance on the plan

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
4 Jun 2026
Answer
10 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 2 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the answer of 24 March 2026, to Question 113652, on Foot and Mouth Disease: Contamination, whether the Environment Agency has given any advice or guidance on the plan

  2. 4 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 10 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    The responsibility for the disposal of carcasses and ash during the 2001 Foot and Mouth outbreak rested with DEFRA (then Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food), subject to the Groundwater Regulations 1998, which were administered by the Environment ...

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