Polio: Sewers
Commons · Question 126355 · Tabled 10 Apr 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 20 Apr 2026
Question
Asked by Joshua Reynolds
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment the UK Health Security Agency has made of the public health risk associated with poliovirus detections in wastewater surveillance systems in the last 12 months.
Answer
Answered by Sharon Hodgson, 20 Apr 2026
The UK Health Security Agency, working with the World Health Organization Polio Global Specialised Laboratory and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, conducts routine environmental surveillance for polio in England as part of our comm...