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The volunteer spirit of last year's Olympic Games is in danger of "fizzling out", an influential committee of MPs has warned. In its post-Games review, the Public Accounts Committee said the 70,000 volunteers had "made a huge contribution to the success of the Games". But they were not persuaded "as much as possible is bein...
Margaret Hodge said the £2.2bn Lottery investment in the Olympics still needed to be paid back. "£2.2billion of lottery money went in to fund the Olympics, so a l...
Public Accounts Committee press release The Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Committee of Public Accounts, today said: "Following the extraordinarily succ...
Labour party press release Clive Efford MP, Labour's Shadow Sport Minister, responding to the PAC report "The London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games: post...
Sport and community projects inspired by London 2012 will now be able to celebrate and share that inspiration with a new brand unveiled today by Culture Secretary Ma...
SNP press release The impending breakup of the UKBA has sparked calls for reform, with SNP MSP Christina McKelvie having written to Theresa May calling for the c...
22/03/2013 on BBC News