Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which groups she has met to discuss pension and workplace rights for elite GB athletes who receive UK Sport or National Lottery funding; and when those meetings took place.

No such meetings have taken place. Financial support for individual athletes is made through the Lottery-funded Athlete Performance Awards which serve to contribute to meeting the athlete’s ordinary living costs and their personal sporting costs, and are awarded on an annual basis subject to a number of criteria including athletes' level of performance.

As promised in the Sporting Future strategy, Government commissioned an independent report by Baroness Grey-Thompson on the Duty of Care owed by sport to its participants. That report was published in April and covered a range of issues relating to elite and grassroots sport. UK Sport is ​currently considering that report in the context of making improvements to the high performance system.