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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)It is a pleasure to have you back in the Chair, Mr Turner. The Minister is doing all she can to deal with situations that will apply to most clubs. The problem is those owners…10 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)It is helpful of the Minister to have elaborated on that. Would she go a bit further and say whether she anticipates that the regulator will engage with the Football Supporters’…10 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)I just want to be clear about the grounds on which the regulator can investigate or intervene. We talked about the source of wealth being criminal, which has been clearly laid…10 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)It would be helpful if the Minister could write to me because this is a big question in football. There are owners who promise the world and then find that they cannot deliver it;…10 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)I think the Minister and I are getting there. Obviously, the business plan and the source of funds come with a new owner and then continue. However, with an owner already in…10 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)I will make just one more point—I think it is important that we understand precisely what this means. Clause 33 talks about an owner or club having a responsibility to notify the…10 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)From years of experience of listening to Ministers respond to helpful amendments, I sort of anticipate the response that is to come.05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Butler. I do not intend to have a long debate on amendment 9, because I am sure that the Minister will agree readily to my…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)With new clause 2, tabled in my name, we come back to the other key issue in the Bill, aside from distribution: how clubs operate, how owners have in some cases badly operated…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)That is a really helpful response. It says to the regulator, “These are your timeframes, but if things change, you should listen to the views and voices of the stakeholders in the…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I am trying to work out what the Minister is saying. Is she saying that the amendment is unnecessary, because in the state of the game report as laid down already in the Bill, the…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)I am very reassured by the Minister’s comments, so I shall not press my new clause to a vote.05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)I will not press the amendments to a vote, but I want to encourage the Minister on this point. As she said, the regulator can come back to the state of the game report before five…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)Absolutely. I accept that the Government have been listening to the arguments—not all Governments do, but this one clearly have. That is an important step forward. One of my…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I beg to move amendment 2, in clause 10, page 7, line 6, at end insert— “(d) an assessment of any existing and effective financial distribution agreement against the principles…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I think I am reassured by what the Minister is saying. It is obviously quite a complicated area, and it links in to what comes later in the Bill. Maybe we can pursue this later. I…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)I beg to move amendment 9, in clause 10, page 7, line 8, leave out “18” and insert “12”. This amendment would require the first State of the Game Report to be published within 12…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)The hon. Member has talked about the appointment of the chair and how the political connections of the nominated person might be deemed to conflict with the neutrality that FIFA…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)Briefly, I think we are going back to a very similar discussion to the one that we have just had, but would the Minister expect—without this going on the face of the Bill—the…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)Absolutely. I ask the Minister just to think about it. As my hon. Friend just said, the current provision is one report per Parliament. We can look back over the past five years…05 Jun 2025