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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)It is important for the House to understand that once an organisation is in the hands of the regulator, it has no choice. I was a director of a company that was applying for an…05 Jun 2025HANSARDEngagementsQ8. The Prime Minister told us during the general election that he is a socialist. What has been more surprising is to find out in the last couple of weeks that the leader of the…04 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)If people appointed to regulators and quangos have fully declared what they have done, ab initio, that does a lot to dampen down concern about partiality. It would be nice to see…03 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I am a season ticket holder in the Premier League.03 Jun 2025HANSARDThames WaterThames Waters is a massive stakeholder in my constituency, and the biggest landowner. We have half of London’s drinking water in four raised reservoirs and we have a fair chunk of…03 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I regret that I have not spent as long as the Minister has in considering this issue. Could she point me to the clauses that make it absolutely clear that the English national…03 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)The hon. Member says that both his club and the fans support the football regulator, but they do not know how much it is going to cost or how big it is going to be. They like the…03 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)The hon. Member for Rushcliffe made the very powerful observation that, in identifying a target operating model, form should follow function. The function has been pretty well…03 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I completely take the Minister’s point about the unanimity of the Select Committee. In that same spirit, it is worth quoting the Chair of that Committee, my hon. Friend the Member…03 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)Does my hon. Friend share my frustration? The Minister said that some indicative numbers for the costs came from the impact assessment for the previous version of the Bill. I…03 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)Will the Minister give way?03 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Jeremy. I wish the Committee to entertain a semi-hypothetical set of circumstances. I have spent many minutes googling in…03 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for giving way. The Minister admitted that with Select Committees she was not comparing like with like. Would not a better comparison be…03 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)And Tottenham.03 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)We do not know yet what the target operating model will be. I think the Government can do that work, as they have a pretty clear picture of the functions of the regulator that are…03 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)Quoting those figures is very helpful. Can the Minister tell us what personnel assumptions those figures were based on?03 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)On that principle, does the Minister agree with the Secretary of State for Defence, who said yesterday that the number of people in the Army would be 73,000?03 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for giving way. In essence, with this amendment, we are trying to set the regulator up for success. Presumably the question mark about whether someone…03 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Another counterpoint to the whataboutery argument is that this proposal will cut through massively with the British public and the football-supporting public. We had the…03 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)It is dangerous to indulge in hypotheticals, but if an applicant for the football regulator chair role had been integral to the negotiation of broadcasting rights for the Premier…03 Jun 2025