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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) foxes, (b) badgers and (c) domestic pets killed by snare traps since the introduction of the Code of Practice on the use of snares in 2005.

Defra does not collect data on the numbers of different species of animals killed by snares and is not aware of any reliable data gathered by third parties.