 On 19 June 2015, his election as Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee was announced.On 8 September 2015 at a hearing of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee convened to discuss recent allegation of blood doping in athletics, Norman said the following "When you hear the London Marathon, potentially the winners or medallists at the London Marathon, potentially British athletes are under suspicion for very high levels of blood doping... " thus seemingly using parliamentary privilege to implicate Paula Radcliffe as being involved, since she is the only British London Marathon winner since 1996.This prompted Radcliffe to respond with a statement denying any involvement in doping though Norman said it wasn't his intention to implicate any individual.