Current status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 18 February 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made towards implementing a ban on the sale of glue traps, in light of the UK Parliament's completion of the process for applying the UK Internal Market Act's market access principles for the sale of such traps.
In order to ban the supply, and not just the use, of glue traps, the Scottish Government required an exclusion from the Market Access Principles under the Internal Market Act 2020 (“the IMA”).
The United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (Exclusions from Market Access Principles: Glue Traps) Regulations 2025 was made on 29 January 2026 under section 10(2) of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020. However, the regulations do not come in to effect until 20 February 2026.
We will be communicating to stakeholders and industry our plans to bring into force the ban on use, sale and possession of glue traps in Scotland once the regulations to implement the exclusion from the IMA have come in to effect.