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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for her response. The main thing is not only having a sensible conversation but making sure that the regulator is aware that, where there are circumstances in…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I will speak briefly to my Amendments 238 and 241. I agree with noble friend Lord Maude that it is absolutely in the clubs’ best interests to make sure that they are consulting…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I shall speak to Amendments 125, 133 and 135. Hopefully, this will be a fairly uncontroversial, simple set of amendments, which try and set out clear expectations on timing. I am…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I rise to speak to my Amendment 173, but first I echo the words of many other noble Lords. I support the outcomes-based approach the noble Lord, Lord Wood, is trying to achieve…16 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I start by apologising because, due to a prior commitment, I am not able to stay for many of the proceedings today, but I see these groupings and others as critical. In the few…10 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Yes, and I thank my noble friend for exactly that point. It is about the clarity of the objective. The most important thing we can all do as legislators is set down what we think…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I want to make sure I properly understood the answer to the question on the circumstances in which the Minister would say it was appropriate to take money from one club and give…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I rise to speak to my amendment to Clause 71 on financial redistribution, and to add to the very valuable points made by my noble friend Lady Brady. What the Bill seeks to…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]That goes right to the heart of this conversation. I can point out loads of industries where there are only one or two top companies. Think of the share of the search revenue that…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I would like to support absolutely these amendments. I say for the record—and I am sure that I speak for all contributors to these debates—that I am making these points because I…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank noble Lords for their contributions, and the Minister for replying. Before I come to address what has been said, I thank my noble friends for their contributions and…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I hope that this one will be simpler. A lot of the amendments in this group are just trying to make sure that there is more specificity; I go back to my noble friend…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, in speaking to Amendment 120 and following on from the point that my noble friend Lady Brady made, I hope to put some meat on the bones of what we would be asking the…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the Minister. I thought we had an uncontroversial set of amendments with a great deal of consensus around the issue of players and fans. I thought that we almost had the…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I rise to speak to my Amendment 104, but I start by saying that I agree with the thrust set out by the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor, that we want this to be a comprehensive report.…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend Lady Brady because, as has been mentioned, we have highlighted what is probably the number one issue. In all the time that we as noble Lords have spent…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the Minister. I will not go around the same loop again. A lot of this is again around the growth and success objectives . We rehearsed those arguments quite well in the…09 Dec 2024