The English Football Association FA released a statement yesterday detailing how they have helped Fifa regarding the unpublished report written by ethics investigator Michael Garcia.

It comes after the Sunday Times sent Parliament a dossier — compiled by England’s 2018 bidding team — accusing Russia, Qatar and England of breaking Fifa’s rules during the bidding process of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

In the dossier, the hosts of the two tournaments — Russia and Qatar — are said to have engaged in vote-trading and vote-buying while England failed miserably in an attempt to engineer a vote-swap between themselves for their failed 2018 and South Korea’s 2022 bid.

The FAs of all three countries strongly deny any wrongdoing, with the chairman of Fifa’s ethics committee Hans-Joachim Eckert recently clearing the hosts of the next two World Cups, Russia and Qatar.

In their statement the FA said: “The Fifa ethics committee made specific requests and responding to these requests involved searching in excess of half a million documents.

“The search parameters were established with Mr Garcia’s office. The documents searched included intelligence gathered by the bid team. All documents within the search parameters were disclosed.

“In addition (England 2018 bid chief executive) Andy Anson has confirmed that any intelligence that he believed could be substantiated was shared with Mr Garcia in his interview and that everything else was hearsay, gossip and rumour.”

The chairman of the culture, media and sport select committee John Whittingdale admitted that though none of the allegations brought forward by the Sunday Times have been proved, the impression is that Fifa are a “deeply corrupt organisation.”

He said: “Today we have published the latest evidence (the Sunday Times) have given to us which does suggest that the (FA) themselves compiled a very substantial amount of information suggesting corrupt practices in the process.

“Also suggesting that England was involved in some kind of collusion as well during that process. These are questions that need to be answered.

“What it is alleged England have been doing is mild compared to the allegations made against some of the other nations but nevertheless it is obviously serious, it is a breach of the rules, and therefore we will want to know whether or not it is true and how the FA justify it.

“When we last spoke to the FA we asked whether or not they had any further evidence of corrupt practices and they said they didn’t.

“So that in itself is worrying because it now appears that they were sitting on this dossier which contains substantial evidence.

“When it is taken together with all the other evidence that has already been accumulated it does paint a picture of (Fifa as) a deeply corrupt organisation and that the whole of the World Cup bidding process was completely flawed.”