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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the burden of regulation on the equine industry in the UK.

As part of the Red Tape Challenge Agriculture theme, we announced in January the Government's intention to scrap 156 regulations and improve 134 others. There were 11 reform proposals related to equine regulation in Defra's Agriculture theme. An implementation plan containing these proposals was contained in Defra's “Better for Business – Strategic Reform Plan” published on 09 April 2014 which is available publicly, online.