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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Fifth sitting)Clause 20 and schedule 5 provide us with the building blocks of a licensing regime. The Minister set out the mandatory licence conditions that all clubs must comply with in order…21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Fifth sitting)I appreciate that clarity. I also appreciated the intervention from the hon. Member for Folkestone and Hythe. Richard Masters’s comments to the Committee about two green lights…21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Fifth sitting)That clarity is welcome, but I would still be interested to hear the Minister’s comments. Nevertheless, I am pleased to welcome the clause and I look forward to discussing it in…21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Fifth sitting)I appreciate my hon. Friend’s comments and his work with his local club. I have met its supporters, and that is one example, although not a lone one, because it has been…21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Sixth sitting)The hon. Gentleman is making a really comprehensive argument for parachute payments. I want to be clear that my amendment is not proposing to get rid of parachute payments; it…21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Sixth sitting)I am pleased to be able to discuss part 6 of the Bill, which provides a backstop power in the event that certain thresholds are met and football is unable to resolve the issue of…21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Sixth sitting)Clause 54, with the correction made by amendment 23, is one of the only measures in the Bill that directly places duties on competition organisers. As I have made clear throughout…21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Sixth sitting)During our discussion of clause 16, I spoke about the importance of clubs publishing personnel statements. By identifying exactly who holds key positions, including owners and…21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Sixth sitting)Clause 50 ensures that a club notifies the regulator if there is a relevant material change in circumstances affecting the club and, again, we must be clear what “material change”…21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Sixth sitting)Heritage assets are incredibly important to a football club and its fans. They carry the history of where the club is based, what its identity is and the journey fans have been on…21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Sixth sitting)The clause sets out that regulated clubs and clubs that have been regulated at any point in the last 10 years must seek approval from the regulator before appointing an…21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Sixth sitting)When the fan-led review first proposed the creation of an independent regulator for football, it suggested that the most logical way to pay for it would be through a levy on those…21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Sixth sitting)Football stadiums have immense value. First, they have value to fans, who have precious memories going back generations of standing in the same spot watching their club through…21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Sixth sitting)Apart from my amendments, which I had hoped would strengthen clause 45, I am pleased to offer my support more generally for the clause. I will not repeat my remarks from previous…21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Sixth sitting)Yes, that is true, and it is true for all of us and anyone who takes a wage, but I think it is a rather unfair expectation to put upon players. I am not sure that I accept the…21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Sixth sitting)I am not sure it is the case that the players control their own wages. When we look at this Bill, as other hon. Members have said—21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Sixth sitting)That is a fair point, but I do not think we should have to rely on players having the bravery to make public statements. We are saying—this is a debate that we rehearsed earlier…21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Sixth sitting)I appreciate your comments, Ms Nokes. I can skip forward to the amendments. I have some separate thoughts on clause 45. I do think that the background is quite important to the…21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Sixth sitting)I am pleased that we are making good progress in moving on to discuss part 5 of the Bill and the free-standing duties on clubs, which apply to clubs separately to the licence…21 May 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill (Sixth sitting)It is incredibly important that if the regulator is going to take on responsibility for conducting the owners and directors tests, it is also given the teeth to enforce the…21 May 2024