Department for Culture, Media and Sport written question – answered at on 25 February 2026.
Grahame Morris
Labour, Easington
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to raise public awareness of the risks associated with football-related chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Grahame Morris
Labour, Easington
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if will make an estimate of the number of people at risk of developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy as a result of participation in contact sports.
Stephanie Peacock
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
Mitigating the causes and effects of head injuries in sport is of huge importance to the Government and we are taking steps to raise public awareness of the risks and to improve awareness of the causes and effects of concussion.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is developing an Action Plan on Acquired Brain Injury which will be published shortly.
We do not hold information about, and are not in a position to estimate, the number of people at risk of developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy from participation in contact sports.
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