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Westminster Hall
Immigration Reforms: Humanitarian Visa Routes - Tue 25 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) channel if people do not know about it.The Government also say that they are looking for community sponsorship - Speech Link
2: Steve Race (Lab - Exeter) immigration system, particularly the proposal to develop safe and legal routes, and a move to a community sponsorship - Speech Link
3: Will Forster (LD - Woking) If I may conclude with a football analogy, the Government plan to move the goalposts and change the rules - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
Committee stage - Mon 17 Nov 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) because I think that an assessment of and research into the impact of any kinds of advertising and sponsorship - Speech Link
2: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) within Part 6, to which these amendments refer, taken in their totality will ban advertising and sponsorship - Speech Link
3: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) The Bill as drafted takes decisive action to ban the advertising and sponsorship of all vapes and nicotine - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Public Bodies: Governance and Accountability - Wed 12 Nov 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Valerie Vaz (Lab - Walsall and Bloxwich) hopefully these buildings will be used for the benefit of the community and all our constituents.Walsall football - Speech Link
2: Anna Turley (LAB - Redcar) Where possible, robust but fair departmental sponsorship is the key way to ensure clear lines of accountability - Speech Link
3: Anna Turley (LAB - Redcar) A sponsorship code has been available since 2022, but we will look at it in the light of the arm’s length - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Fri 31 Oct 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Ricketts (XB - Life peer) I hope that the £2.5 billion that Abramovich received for the forced sale of Chelsea football club will - Speech Link
2: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (Lab - Life peer) past month, but I highlight the issue of the more than £2 billion raised in the sale of Chelsea Football - Speech Link
3: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) The first is the proceeds from the sale of Chelsea Football Club, which many of my colleagues have mentioned - Speech Link
4: Lord Loomba (XB - Life peer) families have so far been allowed to come and settle in the United Kingdom under the various visas and sponsorship - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 16 Oct 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lisa Nandy (Lab - Wigan) I would encourage Penrice school and others who have similar challenges to approach the Football Foundation - Speech Link
2: Lisa Nandy (Lab - Wigan) We have been working closely with rugby football and other areas of women’s sport to advance this issue - Speech Link
3: Lisa Nandy (Lab - Wigan) Since we last met, the Football Governance Act 2025 has become law. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Indefinite Leave to Remain - Mon 08 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Ben Goldsborough (Lab - South Norfolk) there are 40,000 people in limbo in the social care sector because of exploitative bosses and visa sponsorship - Speech Link
2: Phil Brickell (Lab - Bolton West) Even colleagues with limited knowledge of football will know that if someone had moved the goalposts - Speech Link
3: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Ind - Poole) Some months ago, I led a debate in this Chamber on the merits of a certificate of common sponsorship - Speech Link
4: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Ind - Poole) to apply extended qualifying periods retrospectively, and reform the visa system to ensure that sponsorship - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 04 Sep 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Liam Conlon (Lab - Beckenham and Penge) I am delighted to update the House today that, working together, we have secured sponsorship for Lucas - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Gentleman to secure that funding and that sponsorship, so that Lucas could go to the US Open and compete - Speech Link
3: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) I recently met grassroots football teams, including King Park Dynamos, Generation Elite Academy, Queens - Speech Link
4: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) Friend in saying that Bournemouth needs more football pitches. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
State of Climate and Nature - Mon 14 Jul 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Adrian Ramsay (Green - Waveney Valley) years means that our need for resilience in the face of a changing climate cannot be a political football - Speech Link
2: Joe Morris (Lab - Hexham) people from a wide variety of backgrounds, who were all appalled to see net zero becoming a political football - Speech Link
3: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) Gentleman for his contribution and his sponsorship of the Climate and Nature Bill. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Children’s Health - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Simon Opher (Lab - Stroud) A recent report in The BMJ found more than 90 different sponsorship deals in football and six other sports - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Football Governance Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Tue 08 Jul 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None Football does not belong to the Government. - Speech Link
2: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley South) and, crucially, for the future of football fans.” - Speech Link
3: John Whitby (Lab - Derbyshire Dales) Football needs to support them. - Speech Link
4: Clive Efford (Lab - Eltham and Chislehurst) Why do we treat other sports differently from football—why is football singled out? - Speech Link
5: Connor Naismith (Lab - Crewe and Nantwich) Our game needs an independent football regulator, the Football League needs it, and I believe the Premier - Speech Link