Question follow-through · 4814
Greyhounds: Animal Welfare
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.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 29 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 May 2026
Question tabled
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.
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2026
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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