Question follow-through · 69443
Trapping: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to enforce the ban on glue traps.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 21 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 2 Sept 2025 · 43 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to enforce the ban on glue traps.
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Sept 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.
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