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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]In which case, can the noble Lord, Lord Mann, provide the Committee with the details of the figures and the dates when they were provided?04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the noble Baroness for the offer to meet. Can I clarify that her implication is that all clubs in a division will be charged the same fee? I am not absolutely clear from…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Sorry, I was just waiting for the Minister to conclude her paragraph. Can I just ask her to clarify the intervention made by the noble Lord, Lord Mann? He said—I am paraphrasing…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I echo the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Birt, about a conflict of interest. I take the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Addington: making small or one-off contributions…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I understand the point that both the noble Lord, Lord Addington, and the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor, are making, but I am always hesitant to say that something “must”…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Before the Minister sits down, perhaps I could make a comment. The Minister has been very helpful in offering meetings to discuss a whole range of issues that arise, which we…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am particularly interested in what the noble Baroness just said about the pressure being imposed on a chief executive. If, having looked at a case in detail and correctly in…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I will correct my noble friend on one point in his introductory speech. He talked about the cost burden falling on the taxpayer. This is a Bill where the burden does not…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Since my noble friend is referring to a letter that was addressed to me, I assure him that in the debate on another amendment I shall return in far greater detail to this letter,…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]If I might clarify for my noble friend: the noble Baroness, Lady Brady, referred to £10 million; I was quoting from the impact assessment, which says that £140 million over 10…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Watson, just used two words which are of significance: “subjective” and “clear”. The problem with the Bill as drafted, judging from the lengthy…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I shall first pick up the comment from my noble friend Lord Moynihan of Cheslea. Whether it was an intervention on an intervention, I intervened from a sedentary…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Can I clarify what the noble Lord has just said? He described the sporting events in the Middle East over the weekend—which were cricket, rugby and motor-racing—as “worrying”.…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I shall return to the spirit of the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Addington, and the other amendments in this group. As my noble friend Lady Brady has said, the…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend for giving way. He has made an important point in relation to small companies, and is it not confirmed by an article in this morning’s Times , which says…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to support the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord Jackson. I will concentrate particularly on both the impact assessment and what my noble friend Lord…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]To follow up on the Minister’s comments and the observations made by the noble Baroness, Lady Brady, given the detail that is included in the impact assessment on every other…02 Dec 2024HANSARDVoter Identification (Amendment of List of Specified Documents) Regulations 2024My Lords, I follow my noble friend in welcoming the proposals that the Minister outlined in his opening comments. I have two or three points to raise. The first is that, when this…28 Nov 2024HANSARDVoter Identification (Amendment of List of Specified Documents) Regulations 2024I thank the noble Lord for that clarification. I seek further clarification on that point: will the political parties be consulted as part of the IFF research, so that they as…28 Nov 2024HANSARDVoter Identification (Amendment of List of Specified Documents) Regulations 2024I apologise for intervening again, but I seek quick clarification on a point that I raised at the end of my comments in relation to the county council elections next year. Is the…28 Nov 2024