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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I support the probing amendment tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson, although not necessarily the wording of it or the outcome. It is related to something…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Jackson. What he said was exceptionally perceptive and wise. Look at Marcus Rashford, for example, who exploded on to the football…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Can the Minister clarify what she has just said? Is she saying that the regulator would not be able to intervene in the example given by the noble Lord, Lord Mann, in introducing…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I support Amendment 54, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, and Amendment 157, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Knight. I shall speak also to Amendment 249, tabled by…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I will pick up on the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Goddard, and refer to the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Mann. My understanding is that the regulator…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I appreciate that the Minister is trying to make progress and is moving through a large number of amendments. To refer back to Amendment 78, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Watson,…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, over the weekend, I and colleagues from across the Committee wrote to the Minister and sought to be very specific about the points that have just been raised by the…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I only wish I could say to the noble Lord that that is what we have in front of us. Had we had the opportunity to sit with him and explore each and every clause as we have gone…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Mann, not least because I am a member of his supporters’ group. We also have another supporters’ group, for Leeds…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I support many of the points that the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor, has raised under Amendment 94. I see that the Chief Whip is in his place; he will be pleased to note that nine…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I support both my noble friends who have spoken to this amendment. We spoke earlier about the importance of taking into account the players—the noble Lord, Lord Watson,…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I say simply that, while some very good arguments have been put forward, we have to be very careful here. The whole question of listed events that the noble Lord, Lord…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, my noble friend Lord McLoughlin has made an incredibly important point. While I do not think that this is the moment for us to test it, we should give due consideration…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, in moving my Amendment 27, I will also speak to my Amendments 28 and 29. These amendments seek to omit reference to the “influence” a person can have over the activities…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]That is an exceptionally helpful and clear answer; now she has given us the Government’s view on what “significant influence” means. Why, then, do the Government not put that in…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]It is absolutely critical to achieve the clarity that the noble Lords, Lord Mann and Lord Watson, have been talking about, and I agree with them completely. What is needed is…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am sorry to intervene again on that, but that is actually not correct. The one area of the Bill that is actually different from the previous Bill is the requirement on the…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Can I clarify this point once and for all? Anything—not just the clause on the Government’s foreign and trade policy objectives—that could put a stop to our entry into European…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank everybody who has participated on this set of amendments. I heard a somewhat surprising answer from the Minister just now and I hope that it might be clarified. My noble…04 Dec 2024