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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak for the first time today to support my noble friend’s amendment, because it is important to set this Bill in context. I, for one, am not in favour of the…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]The Minister just referred to competitiveness. Some 14 clubs in the Premier League are multi-club ownership structures. Will the regulator be able to take into account the…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 18 covers the issue of the scope of the Bill, and particularly women’s football. The Clause 2 stand part debate will focus specifically on the concerns that…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I appreciate that. I will considerably curtail, so I do not need to come back to repeat what I have just said, and simply put a number of very brief questions. Unfortunately, that…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, in thanking the Minister for her response to these points, I am more convinced than ever that having a probing amendment that Clause 2 should not stand part of the Bill…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 5 and 24 standing in my name. In the spirit of cross-party support for this Bill, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Watson of Wyre Forest, for…27 Nov 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I speak to my Amendment 3, and in so doing will cover a number of other amendments in the group. I say to the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor, that I see this as a Bill that…27 Nov 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My point was that that is not the case. I do not want to go back into our debate on the first group, but the financial stability in the English system is no different. It is very…27 Nov 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for what I am sure is a completely genuine and committed response to the many points that have been made. However, I hope she will…27 Nov 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am sorry, but the Minister was very clear in her response to my noble friend that the publication of the letter might cause alarm, and that that was one of the reasons why it…27 Nov 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]27 Nov 2024HANSARDRenewable Energy: CostsMy Lords, I declare an interest as chair of Acteon, which operates across global marine energy and offshore infrastructure services. Central to this debate is a clear…14 Nov 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare an interest as a former Minister for Sport, having piloted the last major football legislation through another place to enact safety measures and a football…13 Nov 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register. I support Amendment 17, in the names of four eminent Members of your Lordships’ House. I hope that I will be forgiven…23 Oct 2024HANSARDCrown Estate Bill [HL]My Lords, I too rise in support of the very modest amendment moved by my noble friend Lord Forsyth. Woe betide any Government who fail to accept an amendment tabled by four such…22 Oct 2024HANSARDPassenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) BillMy Lords, as a fellow gnarled veteran, speaking in this debate with so many maiden speeches vividly brings back the nerves of some 27 years ago. I have to say that the standard of…07 Oct 2024HANSARDWild Atlantic SalmonMy Lords, the River Wye is dying. High levels of phosphates led to an algal bloom over 140 miles of the river in 2020. Chicken farms along the River Wye—the poultry capital of the…12 Sept 2024HANSARDTicket Sales: Dynamic PricingTo ask His Majesty’s Government, in the light of the selling of Oasis concert tickets, what action they plan to take against (1) dynamic pricing, and (2) other ticket sale…11 Sept 2024HANSARDTicket Sales: Dynamic PricingI warmly thank the Minister for her reply. She is right that we are not in a position to reflect on the details of the review that is under way on dynamic pricing, but the second…11 Sept 2024