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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, our Benches at the back here have three amendments in this group. They cover modern slavery, human rights and slave ownership. The purpose behind the amendments is to…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I think this has been one of the better debates on the football regulator. It is about one of its core purposes and, as the Minister has just said, it all flows from the…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I hope I can deal with this group of amendments fairly quickly. It is again a disparate group, but the main theme is fan consultation and the requirements on a club. The…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, if I may ask the Minister to give way very briefly, I raised the issue of the abolition of FA Cup replays in the context of consultation. Had that been in the future,…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 128, which gets to the nub of what the licensing regime should be looking at. It would require a personal statement to identify a club’s…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Is the noble Lord really saying that it is onerous for the regulator to know from a club who the owner of that club is, what the source of the funds might be or that the owner has…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I listened carefully to the noble Lord and, bizarrely, in preparing for the Bill, I looked at the accounts of a number of the small league clubs the noble Lord seeks to protect…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak to two groups of amendments within this group. Amendment 167 in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Taylor is about the removal of rogue owners. In a…16 Dec 2024HANSARDPolice Officers: RecruitmentMy Lords, the noble Lord will recall that, back in the first Blair Administration, we inherited a recruitment crisis in the police service. Back then, Jack Straw very sensibly…10 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I have not had the chance yet to speak to my amendments but I am grateful to other noble Lords for participating in the debate and making their comments and views well…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Does the noble Lord not think it is rather odd that in a sport where something like 43% or 44% of the players are black, very few of those players make it through into management…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]We are talking here about a fundamentally different thing: the football pyramid and its sustainability. That is what this Bill is about. The question from the noble Lord, Lord…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I enter this debate from a slightly different angle—and I make no apology for that. My concern is linked more to what I might describe as preventing another Wimbledon,…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]If the noble Lord insisted on this being included in the Bill, what would his response then be to further proceedings on the Bill?04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I do not think that it would. It is designed to stop owners disposing of the assets. I will give the noble Lord the example of Brighton, because what happened there is very…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]The Bills are 95% identical. That is why we are somewhat surprised that noble Lords opposite are so opposed to its content. There is only one fundamental policy difference in it.04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendments 11 and 15 relate to sustainability—not the notion of sustainability that we have been addressing to date when considering this Bill but environmental…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I think it has been of great value to have this discussion and debate on the notion of environmental sustainability in the football industry, which is a very responsible…02 Dec 2024