Boxing: Diabetes
Culture Media and Sport
Written answers and statements, 21 July 2009
Ian Stewart (Eccles, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will make an assessment of restrictions on participation in boxing at competition level by people with insulin-dependent diabetes.
Gerry Sutcliffe (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Sport), Department for Culture, Media & Sport; Bradford South, Labour)
The Amateur Boxing Association of England's Medical Commission along with Diabetes UK have recently drafted a set of conditions on participation in boxing at competition level by people with insulin-treated diabetes. These conditions have been accepted, and adopted as rules, by the Amateur Boxing Association of England's Boxing Council.
Under these rules, all individuals with diabetes can compete as long as a diabetic specialist or doctor is in attendance who will care and monitor the diabetic participant.