Question follow-through · 31114
Greyhounds: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the number of greyhounds that have been killed at racetracks since 2023.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 12 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 24 Feb 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the number of greyhounds that have been killed at racetracks since 2023.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Greyhound Board of Great Britain (GBGB) has published data for injuries, retirements and euthanasia of greyhounds from GBGB affiliated tracks and trainers each year since 2018. This data is published online at https://www.gbgb.org.uk/welfare-care/inju...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Pets: Animal Housing
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Dangerous Dogs
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Thames Water: Standards
21 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with Ofwat on the performance of Thames Water.
Hunting: Animal Welfare
10 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment the Government has made of the (a) levels of welfare of hounds used in hunting activities and (b) adequacy of the arrangements for their care or rehoming when no longer