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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, my response to the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor, is that the experience in litigation over recent years is that a requirement on parties to acrimonious disputes to…15 Jan 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]The noble Baroness asserts that it is private. Have the Government asked UEFA whether it has any objection to sharing this letter with the rest of us?15 Jan 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I hope that before Report the Government will carefully consider how best to ensure post-legislative scrutiny of the Bill. That is the issue being raised here. There are…15 Jan 2025HANSARDGaza: Humanitarian SituationMy Lords, have the Government made an assessment of how much of the large quantities of aid entering Gaza is being stolen by Hamas, either for its own purposes or for sale on the…06 Jan 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare again my interest as counsel for Manchester City Football Club in recent disciplinary proceedings brought by the Premier League. I offer my support to…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am sorry to keep on at the Minister about this, but can she really think of any circumstances in which it would be appropriate for the regulator not to consult the competition…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Is it the case that the reason it is not mandatory is that Parliament did not think it should be? Therefore, the question is: why should it be imposed in this context and not…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I think a very strong case has been made this afternoon by the noble Lords, Lord Bassam and Lord Scriven, the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, and my noble…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I entirely accept that there are detailed regulations, in particular in relation to money laundering, but that is a far more specific area, where there is a government system and…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, and the noble Baroness, Lady Brady, in this matter. It cannot possibly be fair to have a regulatory system in which, if the…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Does the Minister accept that the current wording of the clause means that the application fails even if the delay is due entirely to the incompetence of the regulator or the…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Could the noble Baroness say something about the UEFA letter which expresses its views on the Bill? Will she assure the Committee that a copy of this letter will speedily be sent…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Can I ask why? This is a letter from the sports regulatory body that governs European football. Surely the Committee is entitled to know what its views are on the substance of the…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]The noble Lord, Lord Parkinson, posed a number of questions about the operation of Part 3 in relation to licensing functions. I will add one further question, to which I do not…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]The noble Lord, Lord Markham, puts his case very powerfully but I for one am not persuaded, because the delegation of functions to competition organisers would frustrate the very…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I will comment very briefly on the subject of football agents, which was raised by the noble Lord, Lord Mann, and supported by the noble Lord, Lord Goddard. I declare an…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I am very sympathetic to the purpose of the noble Lord, Lord Markham, in relation to his Amendments 125 and 135. Perhaps I may respectfully suggest to him and to the…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Under Clause 22(6), the Secretary of State may make the regulations the noble Lord is concerned about only if requested in writing to do so by the IFR, so the Secretary of State…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]The noble Lord emphasises that the purpose of the amendment is to allow for delegation of powers to competition organisers, not to clubs. But the noble Lord will know that the…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I repeat my declaration of interest, having spent much of the past three months representing Manchester City Football Club against disciplinary charges brought by the…16 Dec 2024