Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 63220

Avian Influenza: Compensation

Tabled: 26 June 2025
Answered: 4 July 2025

Question

Dr Ellie Chowns

Green PartyNorth Herefordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the detailed criteria his Department uses to calculate avian flu compensation payments for industrial poultry units.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Compensation paid for birds culled by the Government for disease control purposes is designed to promote prompt reporting of suspicion of disease and is only payable for healthy birds as set out in the Animal Health Act 1981. There is no compensation avai...

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