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CRY
in Parliament 
Mark Tami (Alyn
and Deeside): Is my right hon. Friend
the Leader of House aware that, every week, four to eight apparently fit and
healthy young people die of undiagnosed heart problems in the United Kingdom?
The charity CRY—Cardiac Risk in the Young—is a self-supporting group that
campaigns to increase awareness of this important issue. Will he allow for an
early debate on the subject, and will he support the efforts of Doreen Harley
of Connah's Quay, who lost her daughter Lisa to sudden death syndrome, and
those of the Chronicle newspaper to raise funds to provide screening
for hundreds of young people in north Wales?
 Mr. Cook:
I am aware of the organisation
CRY, with which I have had contact in my constituency. I congratulate those
parents who have discovered that they have offspring with heart failure on
their
work both to publicise the risks to young children with undiagnosed
heart problems and to raise funds to take that cause further... The more children in such a position who are aware of it,
the better able they will be to adjust to life and to ensure that they are not
exposed to unnecessary risk
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