Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 24491

Avian Influenza: Disease Control

Tabled: 16 January 2025
Answered: 24 January 2025

Question

Carla Lockhart

Democratic Unionist PartyUpper Bann

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support his Department is providing to (a) poultry farmers and (b) wildlife conservation groups to help contain the spread of avian influenza.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Defra and the Animal and Plant Health Agency have stood up their well-established outbreak structures to control and eradicate highly pathogenic avian influenza, restore normal trade, and assist local communities’ recovery as set out in the Notifiable Avi...

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