Question follow-through · 33592
Sports Competitors: Heart Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of extending eligibility for heart screening to amateur athletes.
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 25 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 5 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of extending eligibility for heart screening to amateur athletes.
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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5 Mar 2025
Answer published
The safety, wellbeing and welfare of everyone taking part in sport is absolutely paramount.National Governing Bodies (NGBs) are responsible for the regulation of their sports and for ensuring that appropriate measures are in place to protect participants ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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