More from Greg Clarke, speaking about the situation: "How can I feel good when a person here with 100 caps for England, feels badly treated? To me, a whistle-blowing structure needs to make the victim feel protected. She doesn't.

"Rachel is now leading an activity which we hope will achieve what you have asked for. It is a pan-sport problem. We should have cracked this years ago and I didn't realise it was such a problem to be honest."

Martin Glenn is asked about the nature of the financial agreement the FA reached with Eni Aluko:

"The agreement we came to with Eniola was fairly standard," he says. "The agreement was staged in two payments, the first payment was paid."

Glenn is asked if they will be making the final payment.

"We'll reflect on it," he says.

We are two-and-a-half hours into this hearing and these are the key points so far.

• Eni Aluko says she refused to put out a statement saying the FA was not "institutionally racist" in order to receive part of a settlement fee.
• FA chief exect Martin Glenn retracts comments suggesting the barrister who conducted the FA's inquiry was chosen based on her ethnicity.
• Aluko says there has been "an agenda to protect Mark Sampson and an agenda to protect the FA's reputation".
• Feels "vindicated and relieved" that an investigation concludes Sampson made remarks which were "discriminatory on grounds of race".
• The Nigeria-born striker accused England goalkeeping coach Lee Kendall of speaking to her in a fake Caribbean accent.

Greg Clarke on PFA governance: "I think the governing is working pretty well. I am seriously engaged in recognising what the historic problems are and how we are going to fix them.

"I will be talking to the PFA. I'd like to be very frank...

"When you look at the performance of the PFA, they have some very good executives. I have fought alongside them and against them. We are trying to address the lack of black managers in the game.

"I have a fundamental problem with their government. I met a number of safeguarding survivors. One met in the meeting in front of two PFA witnesses. I asked if I could help. He said the PFA won't pay for my counseling. They spend millions of pounds on salaries but they are walking away from people like him. I will never respect those governments for walking away from their people."

Martin Glenn is asked about his handling of the safeguarding complaint raised against Sampson when he worked for Bristol, which the FA cited as the reason for his sacking:

"Mark Sampson was hired (as England coach) at the end of 2013, and started in January 2014. In April 2014 we received an anonymous adjudication saying that his conduct at Bristol needed to be investigated. The nature of that complaint triggered a review by our safeguarding team. They concluded that investigation in March 2015. They presented (their findings) to a panel who found that Mark Sampson had to undergo mentoring, which he did in the summer.

"I first heard about it in October 2015. If I'd known then what I know now, I'd have acted on the report. We fired him when we read the full report."

Why didn't you read it at the time?

"It was presented to me by the safeguarding team as a closed case. (After reading it) we concluded that his conduct, not safeguarding, at Bristol was not suitable for an FA employee. We had to terminate his contract."

Rachel Brace: "During the Katharine Newton investigation, I was aware of the distress in the squad. We spoke to another player and Katharine Newton spoke to other players. They suggested different to a culture of fear, to a more positive culture."

Martin Glenn is asked whether he chose barrister Katharine Newton because of her ethnicity, based on comments he made in The Guardian: "When they presented her CV, I thought it was terrific. It was the end of a long day, and it (the comment) came out the wrong way. I did not specify. If it were (unlawful) I apologise. I was pleased with the choice of the independent barrister and the recommendation to undergo the second review.

"What i wanted was a proper independent barrister reviewing what we'd done. What I meant to say was that I was very pleased with the choice of Katharine Newton."

Greg Clarke explains why he sent a curt reply to an email from the PFA.

"I was trying to get him to stop inadvertently destroying my government's ability to oversee it," he says.

He is asked why not 'advertedly' tell him "go through the proper procedure?"

"The reason I said that in the email was because he kept trying to draw me in and would not stop. All I was trying to do was be abrupt. I did not reply to her, I replied to him."

FA chairman Greg Clarke is speaking now, saying the Sport England code of governance forbade him from getting involved.

"I worked very hard for a year, guided by the minister to adhere to the code of conduct," he says. "The responsibilities are clearly mandated and directed. I was clearly mandated not to get involved as the board would be conflicted. I explained three times that I was forbidden by the Sport England code. When I received that email after those conversations I didn't want him to get me involved. All of the way through this I have tried to stay within my gov. box."

Does that suggest to you that the structure of the FA doesn't know how to deal with these things?

"I have chaired a number of public governments and they are exactly the same. The FA do not that but it was the PFA that were trying to suck me in. In a national governing body, it is different. I am mandated and directed to behave in that way and I did. What I found particularly annoying was the way it was spun in the media yesterday. It made me mildy disappointed was because the people accusing me of this have bad governance. I would do the same thing again. What I maybe should have done was to write the man from the PFA a letter."

Rachel Brace continues: "We wanted to keep it tight based on Eniola's wishes. We're talking specifically about the Drew Spence issue. Our understanding was that she did not want to be brought into this. We investigated everything we could. I spoke to Lianne Sanderson.

"We watched the video. There was no evidence in the video. I accepted that Eni had heard something, and she's heard it from Drew. We did the best we could.

"In every grievance you do, you're constrained by who you can speak to. There was a chance that things could get out. We were respecting wishes. My priority was respecting Eniola's wishes."

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Committee chair Damian Collins asks why the investigations did not interview possible witnesses.

"No one approached any of the eyewitnesses to corroborate what was meant to have been said," he says.

"Some might say you're deliberately steering the barrister away from people who might have heard what had been said?"

Rachel Brace on Drew Spence: "She confirmed she didn't want to be involved, and that she'd only spoken up because she'd been named in the media. She felt her wishes had been respected by the FA. That's what she told me."

Brace is asked about whether the investigation involved eyewitness accounts:

"The players named on the list were those we understood to be happy to come forward.

"My understanding was it was a list of players willing to co-operate. Dan Ashworth put it together. It's an independent investigation. You can only speak to people willing to co-operate."

FA Human Resources director Rachel Brace: "We had a second meeting with the PFA and Eni Aluko and we admitted we didn't watch the video. That was an oversight. We didn't give a view on that evidence and we apologised immediately."

Did you speak to any of the other players in the room?

"It's very clear that she (Aluko) feels this incident happened during the meeting. We've watched the video of that meeting. Nothing untoward was said. She didn't want any of this to get out in the media. We were told she didn't want Drew brought into this. We respected those wishes. The comment was said to be made during the meeting, but we later found out it wasn't made in the meeting, it was made in a pre-meeting. We didn't speak to other members of the squad to respect Eniola's wishes."

Martin Glenn is asked about criticisms of the FA's grievance processes:

"I have a different point of view. One of the reasons we asked an independent barrister was for a fresh pair of eyes and I think that was right. We took the allegations seriously, and when that was found to be unsatisfactory in the eyes of the complainant we went further. I think that's good going."

Glenn is pressed on whether the FA responded to Aluko's intemised grievances.

"In the spirit of what she was asking for, she was fully engaged."

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FA chief executive Martin Glenn: "We want to issue a full apology to Drew Spence and Eni Aluko. They were both subjected to discriminatory remarks, which is against the Equality Act and the values of the FA. We have a grievance procedure, but it's clearly fallen short. In terms of a general apology about how we (FA) have handled this, I think we have handled this with decency. I think the FA has taken it very seriously."

Richard Conway
BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent

Jackets off... FA sitting down to start their evidence to MPs.

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That's it from Lianne Sanderson. Being questioned by MPs now are:

• Martin Glenn, FA chief executive
• Greg Clarke, FA chairman
• Dan Ashworth, FA technical director
• Rachel Brace, FA Human Resources director

Lianne Sanderson hopes this process will lead to a proper structure for people to file grievances to.

"I think there's a lot of bias, a lot of ignorance in that environment," she says. "I think the fact that we've been strong enough to take this where it needs to, hopefully this will now make the FA put in place a structure for people to file grievances so they can be successful.

"You want things to be done properly. Maybe have someone like myself or Eni as part of that process (for filing grievances). Women's football has grown. If you're going to bring more publicity you have to bring more professionalism. Just because this has happened doesn't mean we can't keep progressing."

Lianne Sanderson continues: "Eni can do anything. Her ability to do other things apart from football is something that separates us.

"I can't say this is why they did this but I think there is a lot of ignorance. We want change. I don't want anyone else to go through what we have been through.

"The sacking of Mark Sampson needed to happen but as we've seen from the evidence, this is a bigger problem. It is not something that we have enjoyed. It didn't need to happen.

"Thankfully we are sat here because we have been able to force their hand as such.

Sanderson tells the committee she hasn't been selected for England since she raised the issue about her 50th cap in 2015.

"I felt like I was succeeding under Mark Sampson at the beginning but when I was doing too well, that was when I felt I started to get taken out of the team," she says.

"Mark and I had a good relationship at the beginning but the way Eni was treated from week one was how I felt I was treated afterwards.

"I'm here to support Eni. I want to tell the truth.

"Mark called me and picked me. I never thought I'd play for England again. I thought they took advantage of that because I was so excited. I was vulnerable and he knew that. The 50th cap for me was a moment that should have been an amazing feeling. It was amazing to get the call back. For that to be taken away from me was the worst feeling in the world."