Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 102117

Trapping

Tabled: 2 January 2026

Answered: 8 January 2026

Question

Alex Mayer

Labour — Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how she plans to enforce the ban on snares.

Answer

Mary Creagh

This Government was elected on a mandate to introduce the most ambitious plans to improve animal welfare in a generation and this included a commitment to bring an end to the use of snare traps in England. This was recently reaffirmed in the Government’s ...

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