{"value":{"id":1134427,"memberId":4513,"member":null,"memberRole":"Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Sport and Civil Society ","uin":"HCWS1658","dateMade":"2019-06-25T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":10,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport","title":"Commonwealth Games ","text":"<p>I wish to inform the House that, on 25 June 2019, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport laid a minute advising of the investment of £778m in Birmingham and the West Midlands to deliver the 2022 Commonwealth Games. This is an update to the minute laid on 9 October 2017, which set out the contingent liabilities that were taken on by the government in order to support Birmingham’s bid to host the 2022 Games.</p><p> </p><p>The government’s other commitments to the Games, including the underwrite of the organisation and delivery of the Games and a number of guarantees, will remain in place until the end of the 2022/23 financial year, following the successful bid by Birmingham and our agreement of a hosting contract with the Commonwealth Games Federation.</p>","house":"Commons","noticeNumber":4,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":false,"linkedStatements":null,"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1134427","method":"GET"}]}