| Heading: |
Agriculture: Disease Control |
| Question ID: |
1786642 |
| UIN: |
HL5969 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4551 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Redfern
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Redfern
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government, following the announcement on 25 February that they will invest £208 million in a new national biosecurity centre, whether those funds were previously committed to go directly to farmers as payments for 'public goods'. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-02 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4395 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
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| Answering Member handle: |
suehayman1
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@suehayman1
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| Answer text: |
The National Biosecurity Centre is the new name for the facility delivered at APHA Weybridge, previously known as the Science Capability in Animal Health programme. This funding has not been previously committed to other purposes. |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |