Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) the cost would be and (b) assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of extending the surveillance of invasive mosquitoes to cover the whole UK.

It is not possible to specifically attribute a cost to the potential merits of extending the surveillance of invasive mosquitoes to cover the whole United Kingdom.

Surveillance for invasive mosquitoes was initiated by the Health Protection Agency in 2010 at UK air and seaports. This can be viewed at the following links:

https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-015-0936-9

https://doi.org/10.1111/mve.12396