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1688578

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sports Competitors: Hearing Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding has been allocated to support deaf athletes at the elite level in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	13762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government is dedicated to making sport in this country accessible and inclusive for everyone, including d/Deaf people.</p><p>Sport England has committed £1.2 million between 2022 and 2027 to UK Deaf Sport to boost deaf sport at the grassroots level and build wider participation. They have also agreed to explore a series of small-scale talent pilots for d/Deaf athletes. These pilots will see Sport England, National Governing Bodies, and UK Deaf Sport working together to explore support around elite competitions and suggest potential improvements.</p><p>UK Sport uses funding provided by the Government to support athletes with potential to achieve success in Olympic and Paralympic sports. As the Deaflympics falls outside of Olympic and Paralympic sport, UK Sport are therefore unable to fund athletes targeting this event. This is in line with the Government’s approach to other Paralympic sports where competition is not offered in an athlete's particular classification or discipline.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 13763 13764 question first answered 21/02/2024 08:55:31 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1688579

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sports Competitors: Hearing Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has undertaken an equality impact assessment on the effectiveness of access to elite sport funding pathways for deaf athletes.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	13763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government is dedicated to making sport in this country accessible and inclusive for everyone, including d/Deaf people.</p><p>Sport England has committed £1.2 million between 2022 and 2027 to UK Deaf Sport to boost deaf sport at the grassroots level and build wider participation. They have also agreed to explore a series of small-scale talent pilots for d/Deaf athletes. These pilots will see Sport England, National Governing Bodies, and UK Deaf Sport working together to explore support around elite competitions and suggest potential improvements.</p><p>UK Sport uses funding provided by the Government to support athletes with potential to achieve success in Olympic and Paralympic sports. As the Deaflympics falls outside of Olympic and Paralympic sport, UK Sport are therefore unable to fund athletes targeting this event. This is in line with the Government’s approach to other Paralympic sports where competition is not offered in an athlete's particular classification or discipline.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 13762 13764 question first answered 21/02/2024 08:55:31 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1688580

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sports Competitors: Hearing Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential adequacy of funding available for elite deaf athletes.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	13764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government is dedicated to making sport in this country accessible and inclusive for everyone, including d/Deaf people.</p><p>Sport England has committed £1.2 million between 2022 and 2027 to UK Deaf Sport to boost deaf sport at the grassroots level and build wider participation. They have also agreed to explore a series of small-scale talent pilots for d/Deaf athletes. These pilots will see Sport England, National Governing Bodies, and UK Deaf Sport working together to explore support around elite competitions and suggest potential improvements.</p><p>UK Sport uses funding provided by the Government to support athletes with potential to achieve success in Olympic and Paralympic sports. As the Deaflympics falls outside of Olympic and Paralympic sport, UK Sport are therefore unable to fund athletes targeting this event. This is in line with the Government’s approach to other Paralympic sports where competition is not offered in an athlete's particular classification or discipline.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 13762 13763 question first answered 21/02/2024 08:55:31 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1675392

registered interest
date	05/12/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sports Competitors: Hearing Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Get Active: a strategy for the future of sport and physical activity, published on 30 August 2023, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of funding deaf athletes at the elite level.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	5279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s “Get Active” strategy commits to making talent pathways accessible and inclusive, so our most talented athletes have a chance to be successful regardless of background.</p><p>Sport England has committed £1.2 million between 2022 and 2027 to UK Deaf Sport to boost deaf sport at the grassroots level and build wider participation. Beyond this, they have also agreed to explore a series of small-scale talent pilots for d/Deaf athletes. These pilots will see Sport England, National Governing Bodies, and UK Deaf Sport working together to explore support around elite competitions and suggest potential solutions.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 07/12/2023 14:13:32 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1672014

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sports Competitors: Hearing Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing deaf athletes to access funding allocated to Olympic and Paralympic sport through UK Sport.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	3065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>UK Sport uses funding provided by the Government to support athletes with potential to achieve success in Olympic and Paralympic sports. As the Deaflympics falls outside of Olympic and Paralympic sport, UK Sport are therefore unable to fund athletes targeting this event.</p><p>This is in line with the Government’s approach to other Paralympic sports where competition is not offered in an athlete's particular classification or discipline.</p><p>Sport England has committed £1.2 million between 2022 and 2027 to UK Deaf Sport to boost deaf sport at the grassroots level and build wider participation. They have also agreed to explore a series of small-scale talent pilots for d/Deaf athletes. These pilots will see Sport England, National Governing Bodies, and UK Deaf Sport working together to explore these issues and suggest potential solutions.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 27/11/2023 15:36:02 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

968174

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sports Competitors: Hearing Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what support his Department provides for deaf athletes.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	170702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>Sport England is investing over £360,000 in UK Deaf sport between 2017 and 2020 - this is to help them work with sport and physical activity organisations to increase awareness of deaf people’s needs, share good practice, conduct research and develop the workforce.</p><p> </p><p>UK Deaf Sport are also working closely with deaf people to inspire them to take part in sport and activity, as well as training a number to be qualified sports leaders to their peers and non-deaf people.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 10/09/2018 14:06:43 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle