Question follow-through · 15110
Sports: Mental Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of grassroots sports programmes in strengthening mental health (a) literacy and (b) resilience of men and boys.
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 19 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 25 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of grassroots sports programmes in strengthening mental health (a) literacy and (b) resilience of men and boys.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Nov 2024
Answer published
Grassroots sports programmes provide important opportunities to bring communities together and to improve the mental and physical wellbeing of participants. Active lifestyles are also associated with 375,000 fewer people being diagnosed with depression.Th...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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