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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I was going to come on to that. I anticipated that if the noble Lord, Lord Hayward, was here, he would ask me that question. If I can carry on through my speech, with the noble…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Any owner, with state backing or otherwise, will be assessed against the same set of criteria as any other prospective owner, on a case-by-case basis.18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend Lord Wood of Anfield for tabling Amendment 235. Clause 48 has been designed to prevent clubs unilaterally moving their home ground with no regard for the…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Like other noble Lords, I want to move on, but I shall repeat two sentences that I referred to earlier. Simply because an incumbent individual meets the definition, including if…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I felt I was clear, but I accept that the noble Lord has a different view. I look forward to ongoing discussions with him before and on Report. My comments related to a previous…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, before I speak to this group, I want to be clear about who the regulator will test and clarify an earlier point I made. I will ensure that all noble Lords who…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]The Competition and Markets Authority has used it. The process proposed by this group of amendments, excluding Amendment 260, would allow the regulator to intervene at its…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, before we have any further interventions, I thank my noble friends Lord Bassam of Brighton and Lady Taylor of Bolton, as well as the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson of…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank my noble friends Lord Bassam of Brighton and Lady Taylor of Bolton, as well as the noble Lords, Lord McNally and Lord Scriven, and the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson,…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am going to come on to state ownership later in my speech, if the noble Lord would be happy to wait.18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I would be grateful if the noble Lord allowed me to take away that specific example. I will write to him and to the Committee and place a letter in the Library, so that they have…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Yes. Prospective owners with state backing will be assessed against the same set of criteria and, by requiring new owners to undergo the regulator’s test, we better mitigate…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I hear what the noble Lord says and look forward to further discussions with him on that point, but we feel that the regulator will be best placed to determine which persons are…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I will have to get back to the noble Baroness on the letter she said was sent by the Premier League following that meeting. Officials have not been able to get in touch with the…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]To be clear, I do not speak for UEFA. It is an international organisation that is able to speak for itself. I am not aware that UEFA raised issues about the backstop specifically…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I will intervene again, and I thank the noble Lord for giving way. Labour tabled an amendment on this in opposition, so I am surprised that there seems to be so much surprise that…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Brady, and the noble Lord, Lord Maude of Horsham, for these amendments, and the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, for giving notice of…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I asked officials to draw up the words that I said on consultation because, night after night, group after group, it has been said to me that there has been insufficient…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I have had no direct meetings with UEFA, but the Minister for Sport in the other place has. I cannot confirm what was said in the meeting, but I will endeavour to establish…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]The noble Lord may not be surprised to know that I am not going to commit to doing that. We believe that the model in the Bill is the correct one. I am happy to meet the noble…18 Dec 2024