Scotland, born in Dominica and a former British Government Minister, is due to issue the warning when she delivers the keynote speech at the the inaugural Commonwealth Sport Summit.

"We need to be alive to the peril as well as to promise of sport," she will tell an audience expected to include Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, vice-patron of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF).

"The impact of sport is most often positive, but can be grievously undermined when issues of governance and integrity are not addressed. 

"Leaders of sport in the Commonwealth have a duty to enhance the positive contribution sport can make towards sustainable development, and must also work proactively to protect the integrity of sport."

Among the dangers Scotland will warn about is lack of good governance, doping, match-fixing and child protection.

She will urge everyone to support Commonwealth Sports Integrity Champions Initiative, endorsed at the Commonwealth Sports Ministers Meeting in Rio De Janeiro in August, which aims to mobilise athletes and eminent individuals to advocate for action to protect the integrity of sport.

Scotland will also congratulate the CGF for "positioning sport as a catalyst for sustainable development" and urged sporting organisations to fully embrace its "Transformation 2022" agenda through which they hope to develop into a global sporting movement. 

The Commonwealth Sport Summit follows the launch in June of the new Commonwealth Hub which brings the CGF into a closer partnership and shared headquarters with the Commonwealth Secretariat in London.

Other speakers at the summit are due to include Carla Qualtrough, Canada’s Minister for Sport and Persons with a Disability, and Peter Beattie, chairman of Gold Coast 2018.