Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 114513

Trapping

Tabled: 20 February 2026
Answered: 27 February 2026

Question

Adrian Ramsay

Green PartyWaveney Valley

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to bring forward a ban on the use of snare traps.

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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