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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I support the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord Moynihan and I commend him on his comprehensive demolition of the Government’s case. I have fundamental…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Bolton. Her words are born of great experience—not just the dark arts of the Whips’ Office, I know, but…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I read with interest the noble Lord’s Amendment 182. The wording says of the commitment to the home ground “with said commitment to be codified in such form as the IFR may…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, just to concede the point from my noble friend Lord Hayward, he is absolutely right about the cost being accumulated and passed on to clubs. I did not make it clear…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Your Lordships and I can rely on my noble friend’s forensic interrogation of the letter and the Bill generally. I know that we will come back to this issue. I mentioned…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, every time I see a new enabling power, I think it cannot get any more egregious, but this is probably the best of the best so far—or the worst of the worst, as my noble…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I want partly to echo what my noble friend Lord Hayward said. Given that the individuals concerned will be non-executive directors of a de facto non-departmental public…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Okay, maybe not. My point is that employment lawyers are very wary about something as definitive as this, which involves disciplinary procedures. The noble Lord, Lord Addington,…04 Dec 2024HANSARDIllegal Migrant Returns AgreementsMy Lords, on 26 November I tabled a Written Question to the Minister asking why the Government do not routinely collect data on foreign national offenders who have been in prison…03 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, very briefly, I support my noble friend Lord Parkinson’s excellent amendment. I think it is unarguable that in the last hour we have demonstrated why we need that…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I support the amendment in the names of my noble friends Lord Maude and Lady Evans of Bowes Park, for the simple reason that it is very helpful to the Government. We had…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I hear what the Minister says and I am grateful. However, she will have read the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee report dated 22 November. We know that…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]The noble Lord asks a very reasonable question. I actually pray in aid the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Addington, because, for all his frustration with this debate, his…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, this amendment, on the potential harms of overregulation, goes to the heart of this whole Bill. What we are discussing in this Committee is not just the role of a new…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for her answer and I thank my noble friends and others for an excellent debate on my amendment. I hesitate to single anyone out, but the contributions of my…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Thank you; I appreciate being kept on my toes by the noble Baroness, Lady Morris. With that in mind, and notwithstanding anything I have said, we will ventilate these issues on…02 Dec 2024HANSARDAsylum Seekers: WethersfieldMy Lords, two weeks ago, 146 asylum seekers were moved into the Dragonfly Hotel in the west of Peterborough, without the knowledge of the Labour-led Peterborough City Council or…28 Nov 2024HANSARDWindsor Framework (Non-Commercial Movement of Pet Animals) Regulations 2024My Lords, it is—27 Nov 2024