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@KevinBrennanMP
May 25, 2021 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Here's a short thread of the questions I asked the Minister for Sport, Nigel Huddleston MP, in the latest session of @CommonsDCMS' inquiry into #concussion in sport. (1/8)
In most jobs health and safety is of paramount importance and action can be taken when/where it fails. I asked the Minister what is stopping concussion in professional sport being seen as an industrial disease. (2/8)
I then asked the Minister why brain injuries through sport are not classed as an industrial disease. He says it's only recently we've seen a correlation between concussion and dementia. I then told him the PFA report says dementia in boxers was identified in the 1920s. (3/8)
I asked the Minister if he thought campaigners were setting the bar too high to class dementia, caused by concussion in professional sport, as an industrial disease. He says it's a legal grey area - "did the sports person get the injury on field or because of a bar brawl." (4/8)
Next I asked the Minister if he was surprised that the Health and Safety Executive doesn't provide oversight on injuries in sport and if the government should play a key role in ensuring there is oversight in the future to reduce concussion and other injuries. (5/8)
I then asked the Minister if professional sports clubs should be required to report injuries such as concussion and if the government would legislate for such a requirement. He says he's wary of legislating if legislation is not required, but doesn't rule it out. (6/8)
I put it to the Minister that no one wants legislation if there's no need, but if there's no legal means that would require ex-professionals to be given more support for respite and treatment from their sport then the government will have to legislate for it to happen. (7/8)
To finish, I pointed out that the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) concluded in 2005 that there wasn't enough evidence to recommend the prescription of dementia in boxers or footballers. If we wait for 110% proof too many will suffer, urgent action is needed now. (8/8)

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In the creative industries there should be "no Artificial Intelligence without Emotional Intelligence - ie the human factor... AI can be a wonderful servant, but it would make a terrible master." (1/6)
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I have been questioning the appointment of Richard Sharp to the position of BBC Chair for over two years now - and what role the then Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has played in this.

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In @CommonsDCMS I asked the panel for their thoughts about the Government's decision to allow the data mining of music catalogues which could allow AI to imitate and rip off the work of some of our most beloved artists, bands and musicians - and not pay them a penny. (1/4)
Svana Gisla, the producer of ABBA Voyage, says "ermerging and existing artists have a hard enough time surviving" as it is, without "competing" with tech which can do this. She adds, "it's terrible, it's a bad idea." (2/4)
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In @CommonsDCMS I spoke to the BBC's Director General, Tim Davie, about the broadcaster’s outsourcing of programmes. Firstly, I asked him for his views on the BBC outsourcing programmes to certain companies who clearly do not respect creators' intellectual property. (1/5)
Tim Davie tells me, outside of news and sport, the BBC has always sourced in-house and out-of-house. He adds when the BBC deals with outside entities it shouldn't be up to the BBC to judge how these companies operate. (2/5)
Next I asked Mr Davie if the BBC has a specific policy on the commissioning of music in relation to IP. He says the BBC is much more porous in terms of their ability to share rights. He adds he'll write to @CommonsDCMS with a more detailed answer. (3/5)
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Today the @CommonsDCMS Committee published their report on the problem of concussion in sport. Here is a thread of some of the issues the report raised and its recommendations. #concussion #concussioninsport (1/25)
Despite the need for acquired brain injury to be taken seriously by sport, both written and oral evidence to this inquiry support the health benefits to people through mass participation in sporting activity. (2/25)
The reality is that, for most people playing grassroots sport, there is no one to stop them continuing to play, after a head injury, except themselves. That is how far down the knowledge and awareness of concussion and how to respond to it must reach. (3/25)
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