PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Sports: Hearing Impairment (24 January 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what measures are in place to ensure that professional athletes who suffer from hearing impairments and cannot register under the British Paralympic Association are not at a disadvantage when having to compete alongside other athletes who do not have hearing impairments.

Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)

We recognise the importance of sport and physical activity for disabled people who take part at both grassroots and the elite level. We would expect national governing bodies of sport (NGBs) to identify hearing impaired athletes through their talent pathway programmes and put a support plan in place. NGBs also work with the relevant International Federation, where necessary, to help ensure that hearing impaired athletes can compete alongside those who do not have hearing impairments.

Answered by:
Dame Tracey Crouch (Conservative)
29 January 2018