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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her response. In relation to my Amendment 8, I have been in her position of having to explain why, while agreeing with the spirit…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Bassam of Brighton and Lord Addington, to the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, to all noble Lords who have contributed…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, this has been a lively debate. Even before I moved the lead amendment in it, a lively debate had been engendered. It is an important one, because fans are sown…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I will not prolong the discussion any further; it is important that we hear from the Minister instead. As we do so, I hope that we hear from her on the tension between the need…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am very grateful to the Deputy Chairman of Committees and to the noble Lord, Lord Lisvane, for trying to bring us back to the point. This underlines the importance of the debate…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lord. My noble friend Lord Hayward said that he did not much like it either, but it is helpful that my amendment has been grouped with the other amendments,…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for her reply. There were two things that I scribbled down as she said them. The first was that the definition—the extra detail of…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]That is the question I am trying to probe with this amendment. Are the interests of fans of, say, Manchester United or Manchester City really served only if, as the Bill currently…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]02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friends Lord Markham and Lord Maude of Horsham for speaking to their amendments and for setting out the case for them. Before the Minister…02 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, this has been a long but I think helpful debate, particularly towards the end when the more conversational changes that Committee allows exposed some fundamental…27 Nov 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friends Lord Moynihan and Lord Maude of Horsham for their amendments in this group and for the way they set them out. I support the reasons…27 Nov 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Noble Lords are listening carefully to the Minister’s words, and she says it is her “understanding”. Is it the Government’s clear view that UEFA and FIFA are happy? She said also…27 Nov 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I will also speak to Amendments 2, 3 and 4, in the names of my noble friends Lord Hayward, Lord Moynihan and Lord Maude of Horsham. I look forward to hearing them…27 Nov 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am very grateful to the noble Baroness for her remarks and I agree with my noble friend Lord Hayward that she has covered a wide-ranging debate very reasonably. It was useful to…27 Nov 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]27 Nov 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I am a little disappointed by the Minister’s reply to my noble friend. An important point to bear in mind is that we are not probing just the Government’s intentions, and the…27 Nov 2024