Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 54937

Mosquitos: Diseases

Tabled: 30 May 2025

Answered: 6 June 2025

Named Day

Question

Tom Gordon

Liberal Democrat — Harrogate and Knaresborough

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of climate change on the range of mosquito-borne diseases in the UK.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner

Defra funds, with UKRI, a large research consortium looking at the effects of climate change on mosquito-borne diseases in the UK. This programme includes the Vector-Borne disease RADAR programme, but there are other equally important vector borne disease...

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