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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I have got up a number of times today to say that a particular amendment is not controversial and I hope it will be an easy one for the Minister to agree to. I have not…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]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]I hope that this proves to be a quicker debate, because I would hope that what we are talking about here are not controversial measures but measures that go to the heart of the…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I must admit that, probably like other noble Lords, I am scratching my head over this. As the Minister said earlier, it is very clear that the leagues know who we are talking…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Before I speak to the amendments in my name, I start by thanking my noble friend Lord Moynihan. This is yet another example where, as we understand this Bill further, we see more…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]This looks at the tests around the officers and I start by saying that we are all united in the Chamber in wanting good management in place, so the officer tests involved here, I…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for her replies. While we understand financial soundness in the context of a chief financial officer, in terms of the senior managers, as referred to in the…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]We have had three days of debate and it is fantastic that we have an outburst of consensus. On all sides of the Committee, we seem to agree that we are putting a lot of trust in…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]This is exactly why we want to have these sorts of debates in Committee. Funnily enough, I put my name to this amendment. As noble Lords know, when I talk about media interests, I…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I ask the noble Lord this given his experience of consulting in a lot of entrepreneurial and start-up situations. I know that he has done lots of these types of moves. Clearly,…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I posed the question, and I can give an example of that. I have mentioned to noble Lords before that I have experience of the Brighton situation and know the board and the set-up…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend for introducing these amendments, which are also in my name. As in previous groups, he set out some of our concerns, particularly where there are media…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Jackson for his Amendment 50, which looks to protect the taxpayer. I particularly support my noble friend Lord Hayward’s as ever forensic…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]This is another example of the benefit of getting different brains on the committee. I absolutely hope that that would be the case, but it is probably a question for the Minister…04 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I am not going to say much except to try to persuade my noble friend. I am absolutely with the intent of what the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, is trying to do here and I…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I want to come in on Amendment 5. Although I am very much in favour of the intent of what we are trying to do—making more use of the sharing of data—I have to remember…03 Dec 2024