§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what progress he has made on the implementation of the Football Task Force report; and if he will make a statement on the Football Foundation and the proposed regulatory body. [132497]
§ Kate HoeyThe Government will respond to the Football Task Force's final report, Football Commercial Issues, shortly. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, with the football authorities, yesterday launched the Football Foundation, the new partnership body which will distribute development funding for the sport, and I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State the Under-Secretary of State to my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Garston (Maria Eagle) on 24 July 2000,Official Report, columns 414–15W.