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HANSARDEnglish Football: Financial Sustainability and GovernanceI agree with my hon. Friend. Parachute payments skew the financial incentives in the game. I also agree that we do not have the full competition that would allow clubs to play…06 Mar 2025HANSARDEnglish Football: Financial Sustainability and GovernanceI always appreciate my fellow Treasury Committee member’s comments on the correct regulation of markets, but I would argue that football clubs are not simply a commodity and…06 Mar 2025HANSARDEnglish Football: Financial Sustainability and GovernanceI very much agree. Stadiums are also vital community assets. I look forward to one day seeing Reading beat Oxford at the new Kidlington stadium. What the EFL has at present is the…06 Mar 2025HANSARDEnglish Football: Financial Sustainability and GovernanceI agree with my hon. Friend, who has a deep interest in her local clubs. Fans need to be able to see their clubs perform in their local area. Many MPs who are in this debate have…06 Mar 2025HANSARDEnglish Football: Financial Sustainability and GovernanceThat is absolutely the case. My hon. Friend highlights the history of his club in Brighton. In the ’80s and ’90s when the future was unclear, it was down to the owners. Too much,…06 Mar 2025HANSARDEnglish Football: Financial Sustainability and GovernanceThe referee is very clear that I cannot give way. I pay tribute to those hon. Members who mentioned the importance of non-league clubs and of Scottish clubs, which are not covered…06 Mar 2025HANSARDEnglish Football: Financial Sustainability and GovernanceI thank all hon. Members who have made speeches or interventions today. I also thank the Minister for her response and reassurance that she and this Government will continue to…06 Mar 2025HANSARDFootball Clubs: Financial SustainabilityThe Sport Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley South (Stephanie Peacock), was kind enough to meet me and Reading football club fans last year to discuss the urgent…27 Feb 2025HANSARD Gaza: BBC CoverageI thank the Secretary of State for her very clear statement. The bigger picture that the Opposition are missing here is that the British media at large have greatly suffered from…27 Feb 2025HANSARDFootball Clubs: Financial Sustainability8. What steps she is taking to help improve the financial sustainability of English football clubs.27 Feb 2025HANSARD School Accountability and InterventionI thank the Minister for her remarks, particularly about the funding for regional improvement teams in schools. Two weeks ago, my constituents in Shinfield and Whitley received…03 Feb 2025HANSARDFinance Bill (Fourth sitting)Although I am very much in support of reviews, and the OBR is the right body to conduct ongoing reviews of the impact of taxation on growth, does the hon. Gentleman want to set…30 Jan 2025HANSARDFinance Bill (First sitting)Might it not be more appropriate to view the measure in the context of the housing crisis that our country is currently in, and the record proportion of under-35s living at home…28 Jan 2025HANSARDFinance Bill (Second sitting)The hon. Gentleman raises the question of estimates around the level of revenue that would be generated by this important measure. Is he familiar with the work of Andy Summers and…28 Jan 2025HANSARDFinance Bill (First sitting)I was simply hoping to get us back on to the topic of the commercial letting of furnished holiday accommodation.28 Jan 2025HANSARDFinance Bill (First sitting)I am glad that we have returned to this topic, because I was about to ask the hon. Gentleman whether he might clarify the relationship between his remarks and the commercial…28 Jan 2025HANSARDFinance Bill (First sitting)Will the hon. Gentleman give way?28 Jan 2025HANSARDMiddle EastThe ceasefire deal gives families in Israel and Palestine, as well as their relatives in my constituency, hope for longer-lasting peace and security. However, there can be no…16 Jan 2025HANSARD UK-China Economic and Financial DialogueI thank the Chancellor for raising the case of Jimmy Lai. I hope that the Government will in future press the case of pensions owed to British national overseas constituents in…14 Jan 2025HANSARDKnife Crime22. What steps her Department is taking to help tackle knife crime.13 Jan 2025