Animal Welfare: Trapping
(asked on 3rd September 2014) - View Source
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 take steps to ban the use of snares across the UK.
This question was answered on 8th September 2014
The Government takes animal welfare issues very seriously. My noble Friend, Lord de Mauley, has met interested parties from both sides of the debate. He has invited them to work with Defra to consider the range of solutions for improving welfare standards when managing fox and rabbit issues.
As part of this we are working with stakeholders to improve the Government’s advice on how to comply with existing requirements.