Richard Fuller
Conservative, Bedford
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to extend the Animal Welfare Act 2006 to crustaceans and decapods.
George Eustice
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
There are no proposals to extend the Animal Welfare Act 2006 to crustaceans or decapods as we do not consider that there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate these animals can experience pain.
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