Infectious Disease: Health Services
Commons · Question 3253 · Tabled 20 May 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 4 Jun 2026
Question
Asked by Wendy Morton
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the UK’s high consequence infectious disease isolation capacity in the context of the hantavirus outbreak; what assessment he has made of the suitabil
Answer
Answered by Sharon Hodgson, 4 Jun 2026
The risk to the United Kingdom’s general population remains very low. The UK’s response to this complex incident is being led by the UK Health Security Agency, working closely with the World Health Organization, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development O...