Responses to the Chairman's letter of
15 July 2011 from Members of the Committee
Thank you for your letter of 15 July.
I would like to confirm that I have no knowledge
of how the leak occurred.
I can confirm that nobody in my office had sight
of the report.
Adrian Sanders MP
15 July 2011
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In response to your letter of 15th July,
I can confirm that I have not discussed the contents of our FA
draft report with journalists or anyone else for that matter,
nor have I shared or disclosed the report to anyone else. I received
the report on Monday 11th July in a sealed envelope
(received through internal mail to my office) and since then,
I either carried it with me or left it in my Parliamentary locker.
My staff have not had access to the report at all.
Dr Thérése Coffey MP
19 July 2011
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I am writing in response to the leak of the football
governance report to the Daily Telegraph.
I can confirm that I have no knowledge of how the
Daily Telegraph came into possession of facts contained in the
report. As I mentioned at our meeting last Thursday, I was telephoned
by Paul Kelso later on the evening of 11th July asking
for my comment on the report, but I had not yet read it and told
how I was unable to answer his questions.
Damian Collins MP
19 July 2011
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Thank you for your letter dated 15 July. I can confirm
that I have no knowledge at all of how the details of the 2018
World Cup Bid Report was leaked.
Philip Davies MP
19 July 2011
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I write in response to your letter of 15 July 2011.
I confirm that I did not leak the Report into Football Governance,
nor do I have any idea how the leak came about.
Paul Farrelly MP
19 July 2011
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Many thanks for your letter about the leak of the
Football Governance Report. I can confirm that neither I, nor
any of my staff, know anything about the circumstances of the
leak.
Alan Keen MP
19 July 2011
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I had no part, nor did my staff, in passing on any
of the described to the press.
Louise Mensch MP
19 July 2011
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I knew nothing about this leak, neither did any of
my staff.
Jim Sheridan MP
19 July 2011
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Thank you for your recent letter about the leak of
the Committee's Report on Football Governance to the Daily Telegraph.
I was not responsible for the leak. I have no recollection
of ever speaking to the journalist Paul Kelso, nor had I even
heard of him before reading the contents of your letter.
I am also pleased to be able to confirm that none
of my staff members had sight of the draft Report in advance of
its publication. For what it is worth, I had also not read the
draft Report before it was reported in the Daily Telegraph.
I share your concern about the leak and support your
decision to refer this matter in a Special Report to the House
for further investigation.
Tom Watson MP
19 July 2011
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