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HANSARDRefugees (Family Reunion) Bill [HL]My Lords, the speakers’ list for today states: “Other speakers within each group are expected to keep within 10 minutes”. If noble Lords could respect that, your Lordships’ House…17 Jan 2025HANSARDLive Events Ticketing: Resale and Pricing PracticesMindful that your Lordships’ House is going to be debating the Royal Albert Hall Private Member’s Bill, if not next week, then the week after, I raised this issue myself. On…16 Jan 2025HANSARDLive Events Ticketing: Resale and Pricing PracticesMy noble friend raises a critical issue. This is about major ticket touting, which is incredibly well organised and heavily financed. The issues that have been raised are ones we…16 Jan 2025HANSARDLive Events Ticketing: Resale and Pricing PracticesThe noble Lord correctly identifies that I am not going to be in agreement with his views. There is a difference between a market that acts fairly and one that does not. All UK…16 Jan 2025HANSARDLive Events Ticketing: Resale and Pricing PracticesMy Lords, as has been noted by the noble Lords, Lord Effingham and Lord Foster of Bath, on Friday, 10 January, the Department for Business and Trade and the Department for…16 Jan 2025HANSARDLive Events Ticketing: Resale and Pricing PracticesHaving spent many weeks on opposing sides on some of the aspects of the Football Governance Bill, I am delighted to be able to agree with the noble Lord on the importance of these…16 Jan 2025HANSARDLive Events Ticketing: Resale and Pricing PracticesAbsolutely. I mentioned in a previous response that there was a successful prosecution relatively recently. Without prosecutions, without teeth and without action, all the work by…16 Jan 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, for opening the debate on this group and moving the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Maude of Horsham; and the noble Lord, Lord…15 Jan 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am grateful to all noble Lords for staying the course to debate this group. I am not going to use any footballing metaphors, because I think we have exhausted them during the…15 Jan 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]That is a helpful clarification. The figure remains one that I do not recognise. I will go away and cross-reference with officials why I have now been told that it is not one that…15 Jan 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]15 Jan 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Brady, and the noble Lord, Lord Markham, for tabling these amendments. I recognise that the intent of the amendments in this group is to ensure…15 Jan 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]15 Jan 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I committed earlier this evening to come back to the noble Lord, Lord Hayward, on whether the shadow regulator would join the Chancellor’s meeting with regulators tomorrow. My…15 Jan 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]It has not been used by the Competition and Markets Authority yet, even though the previous Government gave it the powers to do so. It has been used successfully in other…15 Jan 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their at times passionate discussion on this group of amendments. I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Goddard, that it has been a good debate. All…15 Jan 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank noble Lords who are here for this debate, especially those who have missed football matches to take part in a game for the greater good of football—that is…15 Jan 2025HANSARDListed Historic BuildingsI understand that my noble friend Lord Livermore would be happy to look into that point.14 Jan 2025HANSARDListed Historic BuildingsThat programme is a fantastic example of the value of heritage as an investment in our communities. As someone who felt very strongly that the South Norwood area, which is where I…14 Jan 2025HANSARDListed Historic BuildingsThat is a very interesting question. It is not one that I have the answer to, but I will write to the noble Lord to ensure that that information is available and place a copy of…14 Jan 2025