Poultry: Avian Influenza
Commons · Question 33217 · Tabled 24 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to provide additional (a) financial and (b) social support to poultry farmers affected by Avian Flu quarantine measures.
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 4 Mar 2025
We recognize that avian influenza outbreaks are very distressing for the individual poultry farmers and businesses who are on the frontline of this terrible disease. Compensation is paid for any healthy birds culled by the Government for avian influenza d...