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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will ask the British Horseracing Authority to publish the number of (a) reviews it has undertaken into equine mortality rates at racecourses since January 2013 and (b) the number of those reviews that are publicly available.

The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) provides annual statistics of the number of horse fatalities at racecourses, which are published on their website. These show that since 2013, the percentage of runners being killed at a racetrack has dropped steadily from 0.22% to 0.18% in 2017.

In April, the BHA announced a review into the six racehorse fatalities at this year’s Cheltenham Festival. One of the objectives of the review is to demonstrate openness and transparency by publishing the review, which seeks to improve continuously. The review is scheduled to report in the autumn.