Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 107784
Parrots: Avian Influenza
Tabled: 22 January 2026
Answered: 30 January 2026
Question
Matt Vickers
Conservative — Stockton West
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any documented cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza have occurred in the UK within captive Psittaciformes kept under indoor, high-biosecurity conditions.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleSince 2022 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has been confirmed on 9 premises of which each had at least one captive Psittaciform bird. The department cannot comment on biosecurity of individual premises, as this is not public information; of these...
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