“We acknowledge serious failings in our record keeping at the time,” the statement read. “Our medicines management processes have been reviewed several times since 2011 and, through working with UKAD in recent months, we have identified further areas for improvement on this and in the provision of our wider medical services.”

British Cycling chair Jonathan Browning explained an audit of their medical services provided to the Great Britain Cycling Team has been ordered, with the Care Quality Commission reviewing the governing body’s practices.

And the second provision due will be a ‘further review of the Great Britain Cycling Team’s medicines management policy’.

Damian Collins MP, who has been chairing the Select Committee, said the evidence given to the inquiry raised serious questions.

“I think it is a pretty damning indictment of the way things have been run at British Cycling and Team Sky,” he told BBC Sport.

“It counters the ideas of how marginal gains work, and the attention to detail, if something as fundamental as the drugs being prescribed to one of our greatest ever athletes and cyclists are not being properly recorded.”