Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 24376

Foot and Mouth Disease: Disease Control

Tabled: 15 January 2025
Answered: 29 January 2025
Named Day

Question

Robin Swann

Ulster Unionist PartySouth Antrim

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's press release entitled, Government introduces import ban of cattle, pigs and sheep from Germany to protect farmers after Foot and Mouth case, publish

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
The measures announced on 14 January 2025 apply to imports into Great Britain. For Northern Ireland the controls on meat and live animals will apply to a 3 kilometres protection zone and 10 kilometres surveillance zones surrounding the infected premises i...

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