Tracey Crouch corrected a written answer on Football Association: Finance

15 November 2016 · Commons written answer · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Richard Graham (Conservative, Gloucester) asked written question 49082 on 18 October 2016. Tracey Crouch answered on 21 October 2016 for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and Tracey Crouch corrected the answer on 15 November 2016. The correction replaced 1 figure (£57.3 million) with 2 figures (8,453,501, £56,031,671 million). Altogether 6 words differ between the two versions.

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much public funding was given to the Football Association in each of the last five years.

Original and corrected answer

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Original	Corrected
Since 2010, the Government has invested, via Sport England ~~£57.3~~ million of National Lottery and Exchequer funding to the FA to help grow and sustain grassroots football participation in this country. That equates to £8,176,302m in 2010/11; £5,550,910m in 2011/12; £5,042,685 in 2012/13; £10,287,050m in 2013/14; £9,175,259m in 2014/15 and £9,345,964m over this last year.	Since 2010, the Government has invested, via Sport England £56,031,671 million of National Lottery and Exchequer funding to the FA to help grow and sustain grassroots football participation in this country. That equates to £8,176,302m in 2010/11; £5,550,910m in 2011/12; £5,042,685 in 2012/13; £10,287,050m in 2013/14; £9,175,259m in 2014/15 and £9,345,964m in 2015/16 and 8,453,501 over this last year.

Original

Corrected

Since 2010, the Government has invested, via Sport England ~~£57.3~~ million of National Lottery and Exchequer funding to the FA to help grow and sustain grassroots football participation in this country. That equates to £8,176,302m in 2010/11; £5,550,910m in 2011/12; £5,042,685 in 2012/13; £10,287,050m in 2013/14; £9,175,259m in 2014/15 and £9,345,964m over this last year.

Since 2010, the Government has invested, via Sport England £56,031,671 million of National Lottery and Exchequer funding to the FA to help grow and sustain grassroots football participation in this country. That equates to £8,176,302m in 2010/11; £5,550,910m in 2011/12; £5,042,685 in 2012/13; £10,287,050m in 2013/14; £9,175,259m in 2014/15 and £9,345,964m in 2015/16 and 8,453,501 over this last year.

The question and answer on the Parliament website.

Receipt

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