Ms Caroline Ball:

I suppose it is not exactly the same. However, we did liaise with the American Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, HISA. It drafts and enforces safety and integrity rules in thoroughbred racing in the USA. The HISA was created to implement, for the first time, a national uniform set of rules applicable to every thoroughbred racing participant. Recently, I took part in a virtual meeting with two executives involved in the racing industry in the USA and the Department's agricultural attaché in Washington. The engagement was very useful. However, the HISA is quite a new organisation, so we have undertaken to continue to maintain a watching brief as to how the systems and structures develop.