Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 89750

Infectious Diseases: Disease Control

Tabled: 11 November 2025

Answered: 19 November 2025

Question

Ben Obese-Jecty

Conservative — Huntingdon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the scope is of Exercise PEGASUS.

Answer

Ashley Dalton

Exercise PEGASUS is a pandemic preparedness exercise, based on a novel enterovirus, led by the Department, with the UK Health Security Agency. It has been the largest simulation of a pandemic in the history of the United Kingdom and has involved all Gover...

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