Lord Moynihan has introduced a "Governance of Sport Bill" into the Lords this week. The Bill covers a wide range of subjects the former Sports Minister has championed in the past.

As a private members Bill the legislation is unlikely to make any parliamentary progress but Lord Moynihan hopes that the political parties may take up his ideas in the run up to '2022' he said.

Measures covered by the proposed bill include more investment in cycle safety and a merger of the quangos Sport England and UK Sport into a new body called Sport 2022 to deliver on the legacy and regeneration promises made to secure the London Olympics, and laws to give sports bodies more flexibility in how they use their commercial rights.

Among the more potentially controversial proposals is a suggestion that football and other sports should be granted a certain number of visas for overseas talent but that if they were not used they could be traded for a "considerable" consideration. The plan, believes Moynihan, would help address the lack of homegrown talent coming through the system to elite level.