Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 78118

Avian Influenza: Disease Control

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Stuart Andrew

ConservativeDaventry

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the UK Health Security Agency’s conclusion that the risk to the general public from avian influenza remai

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
Regulation 6 of the Avian Influenza (Preventive Measures) (England) Regulations 2006, as amended, sets out the legal basis for permitting gatherings of poultry or other captive birds. In England, a licence to hold a bird gathering may be granted by Defra ...

This is an extract from the Parliament API. Search the full answer on Parliament.uk (UIN 78118) →