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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will establish an ongoing scientific programme to monitor recovery of the area of the North East impacted by the crustacean die-off in October 2021 and June 2022.

We are considering carefully if further analysis by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science can ascertain more conclusively the cause of this unusual mortality.