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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2023 to Question 139212 on Animal Welfare: Fish Farming, what her planned timetable is for reviewing the recommendations of the Animal Welfare Committee.

The Animal Welfare Committee has completed its update to the 2014 Opinion on the welfare of farmed fish at the time of killing. I will study its recommendations carefully in the coming months to determine next steps.