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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]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]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]The 20 clubs have competed to get into it. It is a changing 20, based on the ability of clubs to take part in that competition. Similarly, it might be more appropriate for…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I have added my name to the amendments in this group, and I certainly agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, has suggested in relation to Amendment 125. We are…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, 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, 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 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 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, like the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Bolton, I always balk when I see a group described as miscellaneous, or even worse in this case, “misc”. On the failure to give…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 2024HANSARDNon-Consensual Sexually Explicit Images and Videos (Offences) Bill [HL]My Lords, my noble friend Lady Owen of Alderley Edge deserves the gratitude of the whole House, and of women and girls everywhere, for bringing this well considered and important…13 Dec 2024HANSARD75th Anniversary of Formula 1To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to help mark the 75th anniversary of Formula 1 in 2025.12 Dec 2024HANSARD75th Anniversary of Formula 1My Lords, Formula 1 is indeed a great British success story. British drivers have won the world championship more than drivers from any other nation. As the Minister says, we are…12 Dec 2024HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I echo the praise that has been directed to my noble friend Lord Brady of Altrincham for his fine maiden, and to the noble Baroness, Lady Quin, who grew up in Whitley…11 Dec 2024HANSARDNational Youth StrategyMy Lords, the decision by the noble Baroness’s department three weeks ago to close the National Citizen Service dismayed a generation of young people and the many brilliant…10 Dec 2024HANSARDEurope: Arts and Creative IndustriesMy Lords, many musicians play musical instruments containing materials now covered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species—or CITES—but, as the noble Earl…10 Dec 2024HANSARDOperaMy Lords, I, too, am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Murphy of Torfaen, for giving us this excellent debate tonight. I thank him again for the wonderful recital that he organised…10 Dec 2024