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Lords Chamber
Football Governance Bill [HL]
Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons - Tue 15 Jul 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Burns (XB - Life peer) Many clubs could find themselves moving between the Premier League and the English Football League. - Speech Link
2: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) of chairmen, not so much from Championship but from League One and League Two clubs, emailing me, and - Speech Link
3: None the Premier League and the English Football League if they fail to agree on a deal. - Speech Link
4: Lord Pannick (XB - Life peer) forces to break away and destroy the Premier League. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Bill
Report stage - Fri 11 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) Big clubs get attention and support, so it may well be possible for them to police attempts to enter, - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) The two-month delay before commencement gives football clubs, police and stewards time to prepare for - Speech Link
3: Linsey Farnsworth (Lab - Amber Valley) As it stands, those are matches in the premier league, championship, leagues one and two, national league - Speech Link
4: Dan Jarvis (Lab - Barnsley North) it will help to ensure that football remains a safe and welcoming environment for all. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) least ten Premier League football matches,(b) the League Cup Final, and(c) the Championship, League One - Speech Link
2: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) cliff edge between the premier league and the championship. - Speech Link
3: Clive Efford (Lab - Eltham and Chislehurst) League and the Premier League. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Football Governance Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Mon 28 Apr 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lisa Nandy (Lab - Wigan) I thank the fans, the clubs and the leagues, including the English Football League, the Premier League - Speech Link
2: Stuart Andrew (Con - Daventry) football clubs—particularly lower league clubs—leading to increased ticket prices for fans and will - Speech Link
3: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) goes to 25 clubs: the premier league clubs and the clubs receiving parachute payments. - Speech Link
4: Tom Morrison (LD - Cheadle) clubs, particularly the larger premier league clubs, to support the very lower tiers of the football - Speech Link
5: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) In 2022 to 2023, over £408 million was paid by Premier League clubs to agents and facilitators, and in - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Gambling Harms - Wed 05 Feb 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Anna Dixon (Lab - Shipley) I therefore welcome the Government’s commitment to introduce the statutory levy on gambling and to put - Speech Link
2: John Slinger (Lab - Rugby) tickets to football matches and hospitality. - Speech Link
3: Ben Coleman (Lab - Chelsea and Fulham) , Media and Sport alone to regulate and that it is time to stop listening to gambling operators’ siren - Speech Link
4: Max Wilkinson (LD - Cheltenham) desperate and with nobody to talk to. - Speech Link
5: Louie French (Con - Old Bexley and Sidcup) If we push the cost of safe and legal betting to such a height that participants choose to exit the market - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Football Governance Bill [HL]
Committee stage part two - Mon 09 Dec 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brady (Con - Life peer) lower league clubs, Premier League clubs that aspire to European success operate under the shadow of - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brady (Con - Life peer) and are critical to protecting the Premier League and safeguarding its unique role in the football pyramid - Speech Link
3: Lord Shamash (Lab - Life peer) This is relevant to the Premier League as well as non-league clubs. - Speech Link
4: Lord Goddard of Stockport (LD - Life peer) rather than league clubs and football teams. - Speech Link
5: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The regulator is looking at English football clubs and the game in England, but 14 Premier League clubs - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Football Governance Bill [HL]
Committee stage part one - Mon 09 Dec 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) But if you take more money from the Premier League to give to the Championship and other clubs, by definition - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brady (Con - Life peer) in professional football across the Football League and the Premier League. - Speech Link
3: None Today, 90 clubs across the Premier League, English Football League and National League work with 36 police - Speech Link
4: Lord Wrottesley (Con - Excepted Hereditary) football, and the Premier League, the EFL and other successful domestic leagues have grown to a position - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) work and rules will allow clubs to grow. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Football Governance Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Wed 27 Nov 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Hayward (Con - Life peer) Football League and a Premier League, and that is fine, and it will achieve what it achieves now without - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Bolton (Lab - Life peer) leagues—the Premier League and everybody—to flourish and be more successful, but football will be a success - Speech Link
3: None The little clubs all have aspirations to get into the Premier League and win the FA Cup. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) clubs attempted to break away from the Premier League to join a European super league. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Brady (Con - Life peer) We have to comply with FIFA rules, UEFA rules, Football Association rules, Premier League rules and EFL - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Football Governance Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Wed 13 Nov 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Sheffield (Bshp - Bishops) clubs in relation to the climate emergency.On football clubs and their communities, we are right to - Speech Link
2: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) our clubs, to the ultimate detriment of the Premier League, the EFL and our standing in world football.Regulation - Speech Link
3: Lord Grantchester (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) and redistributions between the Premier League and the Championship. - Speech Link
4: Lord Birt (XB - Life peer) The Premier League is not a closed shop: three of 20 clubs go down each year and three go up—and 51 clubs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sport: Team GB and ParalympicsGB - Thu 10 Oct 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Matt Rodda (Lab - Reading Central) were relegated from the championship to league one. - Speech Link
2: Max Wilkinson (LD - Cheltenham) and tennis, and even extending protection to some live premier league football coverage.For both sporting - Speech Link
3: Jo Platt (LAB - Leigh and Atherton) From rugby league and union to football, cricket and even a very successful girls water polo club in - Speech Link
4: Natasha Irons (Lab - Croydon East) but to supporting grassroots football clubs, local community groups and widening opportunity so that - Speech Link