Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 60397
Lobsters: Transport
Tabled: 16 June 2025
Answered: 23 June 2025
Question
Alex Mayer
Labour — Dunstable 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 ZeichnerAnimal 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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