Sports: Cerebral Palsy

(asked on 20th March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department has taken to increase participation of people with cerebral palsy in sport.


Answered by
Helen Grant Portrait
Helen Grant
This question was answered on 26th March 2015

Between 2014 and 2017 Sport England is investing £265,882 in Cerebral Palsy Sport to get more people with cerebral palsy playing sport. The funding will provide impairment-specific support to National Governing Bodies and deliver programmes designed to increase the number of people with cerebral palsy who regularly take part in sport. In addition, Sport England is investing over £90 million between 2013-17 in National Governing Bodies to get more disabled people playing sport through the delivery of inclusive and impairment-specific programmes, including programmes for people with cerebral palsy.

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