questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the answer of 24 March 2026, to Question 113652, on Foot and Mouth Disease: Contamination, whether the Environment Agency has given any advice or guidance on the planning and environmental constraints of developing sites close to foot and mouth burial pits in flood risk areas.
answerText: The responsibility for the disposal of carcasses and ash during the 2001 Foot and Mouth outbreak rested with DEFRA (then Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food), subject to the Groundwater Regulations 1998, which were administered by the Environment ...
heading: Foot and Mouth Disease: Contamination