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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 42 and to speak to Amendments 45, 47 and 49, which are grouped with it. I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Markham who has put his name to…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, 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]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]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]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]My Lords, I rise in that spirit to move Amendment 19. In doing so, I thank the Committee for indulging my request not to take it at the end of business late in the evening on the…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I will also speak to my Amendment 40. This flows from the discussion we have just had about financial conflicts of interest but looks at the broader issues of a person…04 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, in moving the amendment, I shall speak also to my Amendment 9. Amendment 26 tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Addington, also touches on many of the issues that concern me…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 7 begins this group of amendments on this important Bill. It would expand the definition of, “the sustainability of English football”. On day one, we had a…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Let me just ask the question and then the Minister can clarify. Did she nod to agree to the suggestion that, if we had put the names of the leagues—which I seek to do in my…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]With respect to the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor, that point is by the by. I had not appreciated the hybridity question until my Amendment 19 was tabled and the clerks advised me…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I am not willing to not move Amendment 19 yet. Given that the House is about to resume and be adjourned, it might be more helpful to degroup it and leave it as the first…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I will speak to my amendments in this group, and I want to extend the point that the noble Lord, Lord Goddard of Stockport, has just made, as it is a very important one. I…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Jackson of Peterborough for moving his Amendment 16. It has been well worth having a debate on this on its own because his short…02 Dec 2024