§ Ms Jenny JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what representations he has received concerning the consequences for the staging of international sporting events in the United Kingdom of foreign sportsmen and women who have been convicted of a serious criminal offence being refused entry into the United Kingdom. [124460]
§ Kate HoeyNeither I nor my right hon. Friend have received any representations on this particular matter.
This Government are committed to attracting major international sporting events to the UK and, in the usual way, we have signed undertakings to a number of international sports governing bodies on the entry of athletes and officials to the UK as part of the bidding 96W process. These undertakings do not offer carte blanche entry to the UK for those associated with events, and cases will continue to he judged on an individual basis.