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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords who have taken part in this debate. It has been worth while having it again, painful and irritating though it may be. I am sorry if that…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am grateful to my noble friend for providing that information to the Committee. As I am not the world’s greatest aficionado of football, I will leave it to others judge whether…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I think anyone in Committee anyone can move an amendment, so I am very happy to move Amendment 33. I am curious as to why the noble Baroness has not moved it and perhaps she can…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank noble Lords for their support for this group and apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Watson of Invergowrie. “Littered” was probably not a well-chosen word. I meant it in the…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am grateful to the noble Baroness. As she could hear from the cheer, I think we all associate ourselves with the congratulations that she offered to the Welsh women’s team. It…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I am conscious that the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson, has not been able to be with us today to speak to her Amendments 187A and 187B; I know she has a commitment…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Is the Minister able to say any more on the timing of appointments? If not, I would be very happy for her to write. The processes to appoint the chairman and the board members…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]In which case, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am happy to use the time before the Committee to return to this issue but, as my noble friends behind me have said repeatedly, and as I have agreed to each time they have, I…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am grateful to the Minister for her responses to the points raised here. I am a little perplexed by the answer she gave on operational need, and her dismissing the argument for…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, at the beginning, I said I would speak to my Amendments 47 and 49 in my winding-up speech, but I said what I wanted to say about them then, so I shall not elaborate on…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Mann, is right that we have had extensive discussion on the issue of cost, but if there has been lengthy dialogue on this point then it is because…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I much regret the tone that the noble Baroness has adopted and what she says. That is not what we are doing. I sat here and bit my tongue, like the noble Lord, Lord…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, again, there is good sense behind the amendments that the noble Lord and the noble Baroness have tabled in this group. They address a critical issue about ensuring…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful for the thought that noble Lords have given to the amendments in this group and to the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Bolton, and the noble Lord, Lord…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am happy to say a bit more. This is a probing amendment, and I am keen to hear the views of others. My concern is about how public facing a figure this new regulator is to be. I…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am very grateful to the noble Baroness for that response and to noble Lords who took part in the debate. This is a strength of the Committee stage—I can see the furrowed brows…04 Dec 2024