Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 60397

Lobsters: Transport

Tabled: 16 June 2025
Answered: 23 June 2025

Question

Alex Mayer

LabourDunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department’s policy is on the transportation of live lobsters through (a) postal and (b) courier services within the UK.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Animal welfare legislation protects all animals from being transported in a way likely to cause injury or suffering. Lobsters and other live decapod crustaceans are protected from injury or unnecessary suffering during transportation by a general duty of ...

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