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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I oppose Amendments 91 and 92 because they try to make the regulator a consultee on listed events and would place a duty on it to have regard to the desirability of…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I support Amendments 68, 89, 120 and 121, which focus on ensuring accountability and transparency and are critical to protecting the Premier League and safeguarding its…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am sorry to intervene on the intervention, but I have not seen the noble Lord at any Premier League meetings; I have been to them all. I can assure him that we have never had a…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I refer the Committee to my interests, which are declared in the register. I defer to other noble Lords who have experience of the technicalities of hybridity and…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I can confirm to the noble Lord that only seven were invited. They were selected.04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]As requested, I will clarify who the seven invited clubs were: West Ham, Crystal Palace, Brighton, Liverpool, Spurs, Everton and Brentford.04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to speak about ownership definitions and tests proposed in the Bill, and particularly to support Amendments 27 to 29 tabled by my noble friend Lord Moynihan.…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I support this group of amendments, which I think are very helpful because they will help to tease out one of the real challenges at the heart of this Bill—how to…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, my understanding from the Premier League is that the Government’s estimated cost of the regulator is £10 million a year, and the Premier League considers that to be very…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend for allowing me to intervene. My understanding of the Bill is that the ultimate sanction the regulator can have is to withdraw the licence from the…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]A comment was made about there being no concern for costs outside the Premier League. However, Mark Ives, the general manager of National League, said: “We are concerned about the…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, I rise to strongly oppose the idea of adding environmental sustainability to the regulator’s remit, as this group of amendments seeks…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Suppose we base it on season ticket holders. If you take a club such as Bournemouth, whose capacity is 11,000-ish, it will probably have 4,000 season ticket holders—but they would…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I refer the Committee to my interests, which are declared on the register. I support Amendment 12 in the name of my noble friend Lord Maude, especially proposed new…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to speak against this set of amendments, which would add corporate responsibility requirements to the Bill. Before I do so, I want to say how much I respect and…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to speak in support of Amendment 16, tabled by my noble friend Lord Jackson. The amendment would require the regulator to take into account the economic risks of…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]It was the smaller clubs, as well as us, that said it would be a burden to them. I read out what the National League’s general manager said about his clubs and their concerns.02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lord; he made his point very well. The Bill does not say “financial sustainability”. Sustainability is not defined. If you put sustainability above overall…27 Nov 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Just to clarify, I said that what sustainability is for one club is different from what it is for another, not success.27 Nov 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I refer the Committee to my interests, which are declared in the register. I want to give the noble Lord, Lord Mann, a bit of comfort in that had he been going to a…27 Nov 2024