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

LabourDunstable 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 Eagle
There are no plans to ban the live sale of decapod crustaceans to the public to be consumed as food.