Robertson: Sport England investigation extremely serious

Hugh comments on Sport England's unaudited payments.

Commenting on the news that an independent inquiry has been set up to investigate £19.7 million of unaudited payments by Sport England, Shadow Sports Minister, Hugh Robertson said:

“This is an extremely serious inquiry into a period when the performance and governance of Sport England was being universally questioned across sport. This happened during a time when the Government was exercising extremely close political control over the organisation, through the imposition of two party insiders as Chairman, so it is vital that the inquiry announced today has full and uninhibited access to all the relevant paperwork inside DCMS as well as Sport England.”