Question follow-through · 62943
Trapping: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help prevent the sale of illegal glue traps.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 26 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
26 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help prevent the sale of illegal glue traps.
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Glue Traps (Offences) Act 2022 bans glue trap use in England in all but the most exceptional, licensable circumstances. It came into force in 2024. Nothing in the law prevents sale of glue traps in England. However, only pest controllers with a licenc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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