To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the UK's biosecurity.
Answered on
13 September 2024
The department remains vigilant to potential global disease threats and has in place robust measures to prevent and detect disease incursion, as well as maintaining capacity to contain and eradicate outbreaks, should they occur. Our robust, risk-based border control regime safeguards against the import of pests, disease threats and invasive species through trade in animals and plants and their associated products.
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