Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 39977

Foot and Mouth Disease: Hungary

Tabled: 20 March 2025
Answered: 27 March 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 implications for his Department’s policies of the recent outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease in Hungary.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
In response to the outbreak of FMD in Germany, this Government took decisive and rapid action to protect the UK by suspending the commercial import of susceptible animals and certain untreated products of animal origin from Germany and restricting persona...

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