Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 37909

Agriculture: Disease Control

Tabled: 12 March 2025
Answered: 25 March 2025

Question

Martin Wrigley

Liberal DemocratNewton Abbot

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the funding for the new National Biosecurity Centre is being paid for out of the agricultural budget which was previously committed to go towards farmers directly as public pay

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
The Government has committed to setting up a new National Biosecurity Centre to transform the Animal and Plant Health Agency animal health facility at Weybridge, investing £200 million to improve our resilience against animal disease to protect farmers an...

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