Question follow-through · 22137
Rugby: Dementia and Motor Neurone Disease
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help reduce (a) motor neurone disease, b) Alzheimer's and c) chronic traumatic encephalopathy in retired professional rugby union players.
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help reduce (a) motor neurone disease, b) Alzheimer's and c) chronic traumatic encephalopathy in retired professional rugby union players.
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
The safety, wellbeing and welfare 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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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