Fifa vice-president Jim Boyce has backed re-running the vote for the 2022 World Cup if allegations that widespread corruption was involved in the Qatar bid are proven.

The Sunday Times yesterday claimed that it had received “hundreds of millions” of documents which allegedly revealed that disgraced former Fifa executive committee member Mohamed Bin Hammam made payments to football officials in return for votes for Qatar.

Boyce, who was not on the executive committee on the world governing body at the time of the vote, said Fifa’s chief investigator Michael Garcia, who is already looking into allegations of corruption, would have to widen his investigation.

Boyce said: “As a member of the Fifa executive committee, we feel that any evidence whatsoever that people involved were bribed to do a certain vote, all that evidence should go to Michael Garcia, who Fifa have given full authority to and let’s await the report that comes back from Garcia.

“If Garcia’s report comes up and his recommendations are that wrongdoing happened for that vote for the 2022 World Cup, I certainly as a member of the executive would have absolutely no problem whatsoever if the recommendation was for a re-vote.

“If Garcia comes up with concrete evidence and concrete evidence is given to the executive committee and to Fifa then it has to be looked at very seriously at that time, there’s no doubt about that.”

The Sunday Times alleged Bin Hammam, also the former Asian Football Confederation president who was banned for life from football administration by the Fifa ethics committee, had made payments into accounts controlled by the presidents of 30 African football associations and accounts controlled by the Trinidadian Jack Warner, a former vice-president of Fifa.

However, Boyce also insisted Fifa president Sepp Blatter’s position should not be called into question by the allegations.

He said: “From the day that I became a member of the executive committee and from the day that Sepp Blatter announced that he wanted to see complete and utter reforms carried out by Fifa, he has led these investigations and he has led a lot of the reforms that were badly needed at Fifa that are now being carried out.

“There is no suggestion whatsoever that he was involved in any wrongdoing.

But Labours shadow sport minister Clive Efford disagres’s with Boyce and feels that Blatter should step down now.

He said: “This issue calls the governance of football into question. No-one will have any confidence in a Fifa investigation run by Sepp Blatter.

“If these allegations are true then those involved should resign.”