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52nd Report - Resilience to threats from animal disease

Public Accounts Committee HC 885 Published 5 November 2025
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Conclusions & Recommendations
32 items (11 recs)
Government Response
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Accepted 20
Accepted in Part 4
Acknowledged 4
Deferred 1
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Observations and findings
32 Conclusion Deferred
The Department said it is undertaking a range of strategic capability building work that will improve long-term resilience, including redeveloping the National Biosecurity Centre at Weybridge, developing a multi-species livestock tracing system, and modernising APHA’s systems and processes. The Department recognised that there is no long-term strategy that brings all …
Government Response Summary
The government agrees to develop a long-term strategy to strengthen long-term resilience to animal disease, and will provide an update in Summer 2027.
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