Question follow-through · 2260

Sports: Injuries

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to provide funding for education on brain (a) health and (b) safeguarding in sport.

answeredDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport

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Answering body
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Tabled
30 Jul 2024
Target answer date
4 Sept 2024
Answer
4 Sept 2024 · 36 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to provide funding for education on brain (a) health and (b) safeguarding in sport.

  2. 4 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Sept 2024

    Answer published

    The safety and wellbeing of everyone taking part in sport is absolutely paramount. National Governing Bodies are responsible for the regulation of their sports and for ensuring that appropriate measures are in place to protect participants from harm.The D...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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