Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 98725
Shellfish: Animal Welfare
Tabled: 9 December 2025
Answered: 16 December 2025
Question
Alex Mayer
Labour — Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will ban the live sale of decapod crustaceans to the public to be consumed as food to ensure compliance with the Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (England) Regulations
Answer
Dame Angela EagleThere are no plans to ban the live sale of decapod crustaceans to the public to be consumed as food.