Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 900423

Disease Control: National Security

Tabled: 5 September 2024
Answered: 13 September 2024
Named Day

Question

Dr Neil Hudson

ConservativeEpping Forest

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the UK's biosecurity.

Answer

Mary Creagh
The department remains vigilant to potential global disease threats and has in place robust measures to prevent and detect disease incursion, as well as maintaining capacity to contain and eradicate outbreaks, should they occur. Our robust, risk-based bor...

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