Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 43053
Avian Influenza
Tabled: 1 April 2025
Answered: 8 April 2025
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of bird flu.
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerI refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 17 December 2024 to question UIN 19297.
An updated outbreak assessment for highly pathogenic avian influenza in Great Britain and Europe was published by the Animal and Plant Health Agency on 18 March 2025, and an updated veterinary risk assessment for notifiable avian influenza incursion into poultry in Northern Ireland was published by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute in December 2024.