The capital was awarded the able-bodied 2017 World Athletics Championships last month by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) at their Council meeting in Monte Carlo last month.

The IAAF and the IPC have both expressed a willingness to stage their two events together after they signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in May while the UK Athletics chairman, Ed Warner, told insideworldparasport earlier this year that his organisation made an approach to the IPC about hosting both events together.

Hollingsworth feels that hosting the two events together would be a huge boost to Paralympic sport in Britain on the back of the London 2012 Paralympics.

"I think 2017 is a very interesting opportunity for us," Hollingsworth told insideworldparasport.

"With the able-bodied World Athletics Championships coming in 2017, I think this is something that we need to look at strategically because it looks to make a lot of sense.

"I am already looking to talk to UK Athletics and the IPC about how we can actually make this a reality.

"It is still early days, but it would be part of the momentum building on the back of the London 2012 Paralympics."

The IPC have already invited potential host cities to show an expression of interest for the 2017 World Championships after they awarded Lyon in France the 2013 Athletics World Championships earlier this month.

The event is the biggest disability sporting event on the planet outside the Paralympic Games but Hollingsworth (pictured right) said that it is not the only competition that he wants to see come to the UK after London 2012.

"Although it is perhaps one of the most talked about sports in the Olympic and Paralympic world, we are not just focused on bringing disability athletics to Britain," he said.

"We are looking at how we can make sure that there is a genuine programme of world class disability sport in the UK after London 2012.

"There will be a lot of people who will have their eyes opened to Paralympic sport for the first time at London 2012.

"That is great because when you see it and realise what a high standard of world class competition it is, I think it will be a driver for people to want to see more Paralympic competition in Britain.

"But I'm also thinking about this issue as a staging post in performance to our next ambition which is Rio in 2016.

"It will be very helpful for us to have high class competition at home which our top athletes can use as they can build towards those Games.

"We obviously need to make sure that the events we go for are of the right nature and right quality but it is something we are thinking about a lot."

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