| Heading: |
Public Health |
| Question ID: |
1806386 |
| UIN: |
54935 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5032 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Tom Gordon
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| Asking Member handle: |
tomgordonLD
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@tomgordonLD
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase public health surveillance following the detection of West Nile Virus genetic material in UK mosquitoes. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
2025-06-05 |
| Date answered: |
2025-06-05 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4981 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Ashley Dalton
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| Answering Member handle: |
AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AshleyDalton_MP
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Correcting Member Twitter reference: |
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| Answer text: |
In May 2025, the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) reported fragments of West Nile virus genetic material in a small sample of mosquitoes collected in Nottinghamshire during July 2023, as part of the RADAR surveillance programme. There is no evidence ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |