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HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (Establishment of Schools) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026My Lords, remembering the bit of the Bill we did when we started this, I think this is quite a sensible provision. There is no great disagreement in principle on this, certainly…07 Jul 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (Establishment of Schools) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026I will let the noble Baroness know that I do not have to keep noble Lords up to date; it is going to let everybody know.07 Jul 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]24 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]That would be a perfectly acceptable response: that there is a capacity, that they will make sure they have the capacity to look at this and that there will be a strategy going…24 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]My Lords, this is an interesting group of amendments that I assumed would not be needed. I assumed that we would have a series of debates about this. The noble Lord, Lord…24 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]My Lords, I just want to make a few comments on this. The idea that we would not have some sort of ongoing environmental impact built into one of these assessments is unthinkable,…24 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]My Lords, when we have these debates we tend to follow this pattern: we talk about great things and wonderful events; we talk about the volunteers coming in and helping out and…24 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]My Lords, I will briefly run through the amendments in my name. One of the things about the Bill that we do not really like is the fact that there is nothing on infrastructure. It…24 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]My Lords, I apologise to the Committee—I had not quite got myself in the right position to start proceedings. This is a probing amendment that looks at some of the minor problems…24 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]24 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for that reply. Yes, I think the idea is that everybody is saying, can we avoid what we can only describe as the cock-up school of history? That is when…24 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]My Lords, I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Doyle, on Amendment 83. As I said earlier, this amendment is just basically wrong—end of. On Amendment 86, I agree with the noble…24 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]I do not disagree with any of that. I would just say that it is not a core activity, so it tends to become a secondary choice and there is pressure on local government. If you…24 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]My Lords, I feel rather sorry for the Minister, because this amendment is once again going back to lessons learned from previous sporting events, particularly from the London…24 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]My Lords, I have four amendments in this group, but the main thing about the amendments on ticket touting is that everybody agrees that something should be done. There is one…22 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]My Lords, it is nice to end on something like agreement. I thank the Minister for her reply. It seems to me that we are accepting that there is a potential problem here and just…22 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]My Lords, this is really a probing amendment to try to get at some of the hardy perennials, shall we say, when dealing with Bills that take on big sporting events. That is, when…22 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]My Lords, to intervene for the first time in Committee on this group of amendments is rather an odd one. I had not looked at it when we started out. I also feel that, if you are…22 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]22 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]22 Jun 2026