Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will have discussions he has had with the Welsh Government on banning the sale of decapod crustaceans online where they are sent to consumers via postal or courier while alive.

No discussions have taken place with the Welsh Government.

The Government is considering carefully the implications of recognising in law the sentience of decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs and is working constructively with industry and stakeholders on these issues.