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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]The Government will continue to support the FA and Women’s Professional Leagues Ltd as the women’s game forges its own path. We completely understand the desire to see appropriate…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank my noble friends Lord Mann and Lady Taylor of Bolton, the noble Lord, Lord Addington, and the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson, for tabling these amendments, including…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lords, Lord Markham and Lord Maude of Horsham, for tabling these amendments and the noble Lords, Lord Markham and Lord Parkinson, for speaking to the amendments…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank my noble friends Lord Blunkett, Lord Bassam of Brighton, Lord Knight of Weymouth, Lord Mann and Lady Taylor of Bolton for tabling these amendments. I thank the noble…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Maude of Horsham, Lord Jackson of Peterborough and Lord Markham, for these amendments, and the noble Lord, Lord Hayward, for introducing…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My understanding is that the amendment would prevent money going from club to club. The model is around distribution between leagues or competitions, as the noble Lord suggests.…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend Lady Taylor of Bolton for introducing the amendments in this group. The Government acknowledge and understand the intent behind these amendments, which is…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]We cannot pre-empt or direct the regulator, which will make objective decisions on a case-by-case basis. However, I repeat that I am very happy to sit down with the noble Lord to…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]To respond to that point, my understanding of what my noble friend Lord Mann said was that it related to the Premier League giving information to the clubs, rather than explicit…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lord, Lord Markham, for these amendments. I agree that it is important for transparency and accountability to fans and officers that it is clear who a club’s…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, earlier, I said that I was not confused. I am now slightly confused, because noble Lords were very clear earlier in Committee that any issue with the legislation that…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am happy to meet with the noble Lord and discuss this further, but in our view this is not required in the Bill but will become clear from the work of the regulator. We think…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, for tabling these amendments, which relate to the transparency and accountability of the regulator. The discussion was…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson, for tabling these amendments and thank all noble Lords who have contributed to what I thought was a very thoughtful discussion. As with the…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, for tabling these amendments on the expert panel. The regulator’s independent expert panel will be responsible for making…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am not sure whether it is my responsibility as a Minister to ensure that that happens.04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I have never filibustered a Bill to which my party had committed in a manifesto and to which all parties had committed. While the noble Lord is correct that I would scrutinise…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lords, Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay and Lord Beith, for their amendments to Clause 2 and the opportunity they present for me to clarify this matter. Amendments…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Jackson of Peterborough and Lord Markham, for these amendments. Before I go through them and respond to the debate, I stress that I will…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]It is for each league a club plays in, but, as the noble Baroness, Lady Brady, made clear, there would be differences between the resources available to each club within a league.…04 Dec 2024