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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am grateful to the Minister for her answers to the amendments in this group and for the clarification she gave on the comments on a previous group. I take what she says about…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, we look forward to hearing what the Minister says about the amendments in this group, although I think, as my friend Lord Maude of Horsham pointed out, we are all…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 280 and 281, which my noble friend Lady Brady has set out admirably. She established the case for her amendments very well and raised a…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am grateful to the noble Baroness but it would be helpful if we could have something in writing on this. As I say, I gave a poor example in the case of Roman Abramovich, but the…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley, for bringing this amendment and for giving us opportunity to look at the new additions that the Government have…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am grateful to the noble Baroness for that. If there is more she is able to say, I am sure that other noble Lords who are not able to be here and who take an interest in these…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, my Amendment 145 seeks to add to Schedule 4 a consideration of a “club’s political statements and positions” in the part of the new regime that concerns the fan…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]As the Minister spoke, I wondered whether the staff and relevant board members of the regulator will have the requisite security vetting to be able to consider some of the matters…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am very grateful to the Minister for the way that she has engaged with this and her promise to look at it further. She is right that this is a very House of Lords issue, but I…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am glad that the Government Chief Whip has been here to see the lively debate on all sides of the Committee, including on his own Benches, on this group. He will have noted that…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, this has been a fruitful and helpful debate on what will be one of the key issues with which we will all have to grapple once the regulator is established. I thank the…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I think it would be helpful if the Minister took this away, discussed it and maybe checked whether a solution like the helpful one my noble friend Lord Moynihan suggested might be…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I appreciate that it is late. If the noble Baroness could put some of what she might have said in a letter, that would be useful. It is unfortunate that we are reaching what is a…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to oppose the question that Clause 15 stand part of the Bill—and, indeed, Clauses 15 to 25. I do that not because I disagree wholeheartedly with this huge swathe…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak to my amendments in this group and say a little about the amendments tabled by my noble friends Lady Brady and Lord Moynihan. The amendments relate to the…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I want to say a little about Amendment 124, which my noble friend Lord Markham has outlined and to which I have added my name. I am sorry that we have not yet fully…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I think that is an informal one from fans of other north London clubs. But clearly the names of clubs do matter, and we would be interested in whether the Government agree with…16 Dec 2024