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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, for these amendments, which address changes to club heritage assets and what should be safeguarded…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lord, Lord Foster, for these amendments. As Gambling Minister, I acknowledge the importance of monitoring the impacts of gambling sponsorship in football.…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My noble friend is quite clear, as are we, that the fans are central—I made that point earlier. However, making an explicit list for every single type of consultation that the…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank noble Lords for their continued engagement on these important provisions of the Bill. I appreciate that I am one of the very few things standing between noble Lords and…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lords, Lord Markham and Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, for their amendments. Apart from Amendment 148, which I will turn to shortly, they all seek to extend to a…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I was getting to the point where I was offering to take it away, so I think we are in violent danger of agreeing. On the question of the House being able to scrutinise any…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am not sure that the Secretary of State would find it onerous, because it is not intended to be used very often. However, the noble Lord makes an interesting point and I…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]If I may, I will clarify that in writing after this session to ensure I give the right response. I am not trying to avoid it; I will ensure I give the Committee a response.…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My noble friend raises an interesting point. The issue of the FA Cup replays would rightly be outside the scope of this regulator. The sporting calendar and the rules of specific…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank noble Lords across the Committee for the thorough debate on this group. If the group is called misc or miscellaneous, that does not diminish the significance of the…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Markham, for tabling these amendments, and the noble Lords, Lord Pannick, Lord Addington and Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, for what has…16 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Youth StrategyOne of the things about not having a youth strategy that goes across government is that we have not necessarily had joined-up work. I am happy to get a response to the noble and…10 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Youth StrategyI do not have a specific answer on how many were closed, but I think it was a lot. Local authorities’ youth funding in England fell by 73% under the previous Government and,…10 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Youth StrategyAs the noble Lord will be aware, there is a whole host of other programmes delivered by the department in addition to the National Citizen Service. We did not want to do what the…10 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Youth StrategyWe are really keen to see the Combined Cadet Force grow, and the MoD funding in this academic year supports the ambition to grow to 60,000 cadets in 500 school cadet units across…10 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Youth StrategyWe encourage all young people involved in existing schemes to take part and get engaged with the formation of the strategy. I will take the noble Lord’s point back to the…10 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Youth StrategyWe intend to develop the strategy over the next year and to publish it in 2025. The key issue around how we are developing it is coproduction; it will be a coproduced strategy…10 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Youth StrategyThe noble Baroness makes a really valuable point about the role of citizenship. It is essential that pupils develop an understanding of their place in a democratic society so that…10 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Youth StrategyThe noble Lord makes a really interesting point, and I would be very happy to discuss it further with him next time we meet.10 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Youth StrategyI do not recognise the portrayal of the decision-making process that the noble Lord outlines. I remind him that when we came into power there was no youth strategy. This is part…10 Dec 2024