Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to encourage FIFA to (a) enhance and strictly implement its human rights criteria for future events and (b) strengthen its human rights due diligence processes.

The Government has frank conversations at international level with our counterparts around the world on issues such as human rights, and we will continue to have those conversations.

Sport operates independently of government, therefore direct representations to FIFA on their criteria and due diligence processes for future events would be a matter for Home Nation football governing bodies to raise.