Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 26095

Foot and Mouth Disease

Tabled: 23 January 2025
Answered: 29 January 2025
Named Day

Question

Dr Neil Hudson

ConservativeEpping Forest

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the risk of incursion of Foot and Mouth disease to the UK.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Following the confirmation of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in Germany on the 10 January 2025, Government has taken decisive and rapid action to protect the UK by suspending the commercial import of susceptible animals and untreated products of animal orig...

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