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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how her Department plans to monitor implementation of the guidance set out in the Code of Practice on the use of snares; and when her Department plans to review or revise that code.

The Government welcomes the Code of Practice, which has been developed and is owned by game keeping and land management organisations. Defra will continue to work with those organisations to promote effective implementation of the Code.

There are no immediate plans to review implementation of the Code but we will keep this under review.