article_snippet.sent: Shadow health secretary and keen football fan Andy Burnham said the move could unlock £400 million to nurture the talents of the next generation of stars over the course of the next parliament.
article_snippet.sent: Although the Premier League puts £168million into grassroots sport, this represents only a fraction of the £5billion this has taken in from TV deals between 2013 and 2016, said Labour.
article_snippet.sent: Since then, TV rights have soared by over 160 per cent, but Prime Minister David Cameron has failed to make sure that the game's elite honours The last Labour government obligations to the next generation coming through.
article_snippet.sent: the Premier League clubs only have permission to sell Premier League clubs rights collectively if Premier League clubs can demonstrate that it is in the wider public interest.
article_snippet.sent: BT Sport and Sky Sports were part of the lucrative TV deal estimated around £5billion starting in 2016 .
article_snippet.sent: A the Premier League spokesman said: 'The success of the Premier League benefits the development of the English game outside of the top flight.
article_snippet.sent: Significant investment has flowed through all levels of the English game from the grassroots upwards, and well in excess of the five per cent of domestic live broadcast revenues agreed in 2005. '
article_snippet.sent: Only last month the Premier League clubs committed to investing at least £1bn outside of the Premier League from 2016-2019.
article_snippet.sent: Currently we invest £56m per season in this important work and the Premier League football will generate over £1.2bn in tax revenue for the Treasury this year alone. 'even more investment in grass-roots football has seen over 50 new artificial pitches built in local communities and our club's coaches delivering thousands of PE lessons in primary schools across the country during the 2014/15 season.'