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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what criteria her Department uses to assess the effectiveness of the Greyhound Board of Great Britain as a regulator of greyhound welfare.

Independent, external assessment of the Greyhound Board of Great Britain’s (GBGB) regulatory work enforcing welfare standards required by the Welfare of Racing Greyhound Regulations 2010 has been provided since 2010 by the UK’s National Accreditation Body, the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS). More recently, UKAS now also accredits GBGB’s independent welfare inspections of GBGB licensed trainers’ kennels. UKAS has been satisfied by routine inspections and audits that GBGB is an effective regulator of welfare standards.