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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Brady for her Amendment 67A and for the passion and clarity with which she set out her reasons for it; I am also grateful for her…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I speak to Amendments 51 and 52 in the name of my noble friend Lord Maude of Horsham—I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Hayward for moving Amendment 51 on his…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]The Minister is accidentally proving my point. This is the frustration of parliamentarians when we ask questions and do not get what we want from an Executive. She is right that…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, it is telling that so many noble Lords from both principal sides of your Lordships’ House have tabled amendments about the regulatory principles established by the Bill,…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I will briefly say a few words about my Amendments 106, 108 and 109. Given the hour, I will not speak at length. As with the other amendments in this group, these…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Does the Minister accept that if the Secretary of State decided that was not necessary but Parliament wanted to hear it, as the Bill is drafted, it is the Secretary of State who…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend and the noble Lord for rightly recalling him. It is right that he and professional footballers are getting the attention they deserve. I look forward to…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I do not know whether the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Bolton, is proposing to speak to her amendments in this group.09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]We did not get to a conclusion.09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I look forward to her noble friend the Minister’s response to it, if she feels she has anything to add to it in this group. The debates that we have had on this group, which…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, like others, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Mann, for moving his Amendment 65, which probes an important area and a potentially concerning consequence. I am…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, we did not quite give the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, the debate of under an hour that he hoped for, but I note, for the benefit of the Government Chief Whip when he…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Evans of Rainow for tabling his Amendment 93 and giving us the opportunity to discuss the duties of, requirements for and…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, my Amendment 265 falls in this group. I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Bassam of Brighton, who has tabled it with me. I know he shares my gratitude to the public…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Markham for setting out the amendments in this group and, in his absence, my noble friend Lord Maude of Horsham. He tabled some of…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak to both amendments in this group, to which I have added my name. I am very grateful to my noble friends who have spoken to them, particularly my noble…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am grateful to the Minister. As I say, I was mindful that it is in Schedule 12, but she did not give much additional information on how the Government will seek to work with the…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I have the only amendment in this group. Amendment 88 is intended merely as a probing amendment to give us the opportunity to ask the Minister what the Government’s…09 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am grateful to the Minister for that response. I recognise many of the lines she uttered; I have uttered those and similar on previous Bills. For me, the most important…04 Dec 2024