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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)Does my hon. Friend agree that his amendment is very much in the spirit of football? We have seen many injury time winners, when all the odds are stacked against a club, but in…10 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)Has the hon. Gentleman considered that, essentially, we are talking about the state seizing someone’s assets and giving them to someone else? If a club falls into administration,…10 Jun 2025HANSARDChinese Embassy DevelopmentIs the planning officer who is considering this case cleared to receive top-secret information?09 Jun 2025HANSARD Winter Fuel PaymentI appreciate that the Minister did not get a chance to spend long on the Back Benches—such has been his accelerated rise up the ministerial pole—but would he like to spare a…09 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I rise as someone who currently has an invitation in my inbox to renew my season ticket for an eye-watering £950. I would love to know where all that money goes, as the shadow…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I ask the Minister to respond to this simple question: has the Bill as drafted been shared with UEFA? Is UEFA satisfied that it does not represent political control?05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)Mr Turner, you will have seen the declaration of interests that I made on Tuesday. I seek the Committee’s indulgence; this is the only gratuitous intervention that I will make.…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I suspect that Government Members will oppose the amendment. Given that, does my hon. Friend think that it would be reasonable of me to ask the Minister the extent to which UEFA…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Turner. The shadow Minister is making a pertinent and important point. If the independent football regulator were…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Afghan Relocations and Assistance PolicyThe Minister’s civil servants will be proud of him. I think the point my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) was making was that…05 Jun 2025HANSARD Afghan Relocations and Assistance PolicyI did serve in Afghanistan, including with the young major who is now the general that my right hon. and gallant Friend is referring to. He is an outstanding officer with…05 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMr Speaker, “The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP”— so said the controversial Ulster rap band who remain on the bill at Glastonbury. Given that is the case, can…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)I struggle to understand what might be contained in the Government policy statements. The Minister is steeped in this legislation, so must have discussed this in the past. Can she…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)The Liberal Democrat spokesman talks about dodgy owners. My season ticket is for a Premier League club; a season ticket for, say, Ashford Town (Middlesex) FC for the forthcoming…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)My hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight East and I were not here in the last Parliament, so what went on and the provenance of the Bill are not really our concern. We are…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)The Minister just said something that I am not quite clear about; perhaps, given my hon. Friend’s experience, he could explain it to me. If a club gets promoted to the English…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)The Minister said that clubs would still be allowed to play in the absence of a provisional operating licence. How long would they be allowed to play for before being granted such…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)Regulation does indeed evolve, but giving this football regulator carte blanche to evolve it without any recourse to Parliament is a key weakness of the Bill’s current drafting,…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Butler. Subsection (3)(c) of clause 16 is an absolute Trojan horse; it gives carte blanche to the regulator to demand…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)What makes the Minister think that clubs themselves would not, as a normal matter of course, be noting their compliance costs?05 Jun 2025