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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)Clause 16 is about the application for provisional licences, and this debate builds on the previous debate about costs. The way in which clause 16 is currently drafted is a…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I will not seek to repeat all the objectives that the Minister outlined for clause 8, but I will make some comments on each principle, and pose some questions to which I hope she…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)We are concerned about unchecked powers, as we have explained at some length, and believe that the House should be able to check those powers. We are concerned about the lack of…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)It is disappointing that our amendments, which were tabled in a constructive manner, not a political one, have not been accepted. We remain concerned about some of those risks to…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I believe “Blue is the colour, football is the game” is the motto in the song. That is of course Chelsea. I congratulate them, as well as Spurs, on their recent victory in Europe.…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I beg to move amendment 97, in clause 7, page 5, line 27, at end insert— “(d) conflicts with any regulations or rules of international football governing bodies, including FIFA…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I absolutely understand the point that the spokesman for the Liberal Democrats makes. One of the extreme examples, which he used, of Manchester United—if I remember correctly, the…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I beg to move amendment 123, clause 10, page 7, line 6, at end insert— “(d) an assessment of the impact that the IFR’s activities have had on the price of match tickets.” This…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I thank the hon. Member for that intervention. As I said, it really is about transparency. We believe that we, as elected Members of this House, need to have an understanding of…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I thank the hon. Member for tabling this amendment. As I said in a previous sitting, we have a lot of respect for the work that he does chairing the football all-party…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)That fans would be happy to accept higher prices is a brave argument to make, and it is not one that we are willing to accept. More broadly, we believe that Parliament must be…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)It is rather disappointing that the Liberal Democrats and Labour seem to be against the principle of transparency for fans of the impact on ticket prices, given that the issue is…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I am not going to guess what league that club is in, but I am sure they are brilliant, whoever they are. I will not seek to offend anyone’s club by not knowing what league they…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)Clause 10 provides for what is described as a state of the game report — a new mechanism by which the Government’s regulator is expected to take stock of the health, direction and…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)I do not want to rehash the debate we had before the lunch break. We will press amendment 122 to a vote under a future clause, but we are disappointed that the Government are not…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)I appreciate that the Minister said earlier that she has written to me to set out where the report will end up and how Parliament will be able to scrutinise it, but will…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)I beg to move amendment 113, in clause 11, page 7, line 41, at end insert— “(7) No football governance statement may have effect unless approved by resolution of both Houses of…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)It is a privilege to serve under your chairship, Ms Butler—a half-time substitute in today’s proceedings. I will speak briefly to the amendment. I completely understand the…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)I beg to move amendment 99, in clause 16, page 10, line 10, leave out subsection (c). This amendment prevents the IFR from requiring information from clubs in the other than the…05 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [Lords] (Fourth sitting)I genuinely thank the Minister for clarifying. We have to understand the context in which the Bill is operating. As I said earlier, the Bill is being made not in isolation, but in…05 Jun 2025