Today MPs will question experts and the key figures responsible for anti-doping in Athletics, in the wake of a number of scandals and damning allegations that have rocked the sport in recent months.

In August this year, the Sunday Times published a series of articles commenting on a database of test results from athletes taken between 2001 and 2012, which its experts argued showed abnormal results for a number of endurance runners.

For its first inquiry of the new parliament, the Committee will explore the allegations (which have been strenuously rebutted by the International Association of Athletics Federations) that the IAAF failed to follow up test results from some prominent athletes which raised suspicions that blood doping had occurred.

On being appointed the new IAAF President, the Sports Think Tank's patron Lord Sebastian Coe described his election as president of the world athletics governing body as the pinnacle of his career and vowed to introduce an independent doping commission to address perceived "conflicts and loopholes".

The following individuals will provide evidence to the Select Committee:

• Dr Michael Ashenden, Science and Industry Against Blood Doping, Australia
• Nicole Sapstead, Chief Executive, UK Anti-Doping (UKAD)
• David Kenworthy, Chair, UK Anti-Doping
• David Howman, Director General, World Anti-Doping Agency

The Department for Culture, Media of Sport are in the process of receiving responses to the its public consultation on the Government's sports strategy, with specific questions aimed at establishing a robust approach for protecting sport from performance enhancing drugs.