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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to strengthen regulations governing the use of snares in England.

The Government’s Animal Welfare Strategy sets out its clear ambition for all animals to experience good welfare and not be subjected to suffering. The strategy reiterates the manifesto commitment to end the use of snare traps in England, and the Government will do this as swiftly as possible.