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Public Bill Committees
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)
Committee stage: 8th sitting - Tue 14 May 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) The Government have also committed to a tobacco duty escalator, which increases duty by retail price index - Speech Link
2: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) in the past when our favourite football teams ran about the park with cigarettes advertised on their - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) We are clearly now in the position whereby if anyone suggested that football teams should have tobacco - Speech Link
4: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) I do not know about anybody else’s children, but mine watch football on the television, and they can - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Football Governance Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 14 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool, West Derby) I sit on the management committee of the Spirit of Shankly football union for Liverpool football club - Speech Link
2: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) Given that prices have doubled, from a consumer price index perspective, that is absolutely fantastic - Speech Link
3: Damian Collins (Con - Folkestone and Hythe) the introduction of solidarity payments from the Premier League to the EFL, which started to become index-linked - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) squads and football in general, and will slow down the growth of English football. - Speech Link
5: Brendan Clarke-Smith (Con - Bassetlaw) needs to be football-led. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Gambling Advertising - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) In sport, the absence of government action has led 35 football clubs to decide to go it alone and join - Speech Link
2: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) If you ever go to a football match, as I do, you cannot escape the gambling adverts and the involvement - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) 10% of gamblers with a “non-problem” or “low-risk” score—according to the problem gambling severity index—were - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Football Index Collapse: Lessons Learned - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) Index platform is working with others to create a new trading platform, citing Football Index as proof - Speech Link
2: Gill Furniss (Lab - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) Prior to its collapse, Football Index sponsored the shirts of three English Football League teams. - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) Adam Cole was the co-founder of Football Index. - Speech Link
4: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) Index, it is Football Index mark 2 in a different form. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Large-scale Solar Farms - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) That is the equivalent of 1,300 football pitches and will be 10 times larger than the current-largest - Speech Link
2: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) required to power around 50,000 homes, but one small modular reactor, requiring the space of just two football - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) A small modular reactor is the size of two football pitches and can power 1 million homes. - Speech Link
4: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) That is hard for most people to imagine, but that is 2,000 football fields or, as somebody said, about - Speech Link
5: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) Friend the Prime Minister committed to having a food security index, to be produced annually, and I think - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Food Waste and Food Distribution - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Both parents work, and when they come home they carry out homework and take the kids to football or to - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) The food waste index report indicates that 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions are due to food waste—five - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Report stage - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayman (XB - Life peer) consumers in Northern Ireland will be able to repair phones, smart- phones and tablets, and to see a repair index - Speech Link
2: None problem, which the Minister questioned in his letter to the Committee, one top-flight Premier League football - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Planning Reform - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Simon Clarke (Con - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) delighted to announce that PricedOut, Britain’s largest campaign for affordable news homes, will publish an index - Speech Link
2: Daisy Cooper (LD - St Albans) strategic rail freight interchange the size of 3.5 million square metres of green belt, equivalent to 490 football - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) Whereas Indian children aspire to be doctors or businessmen, the British are more interested in football - Speech Link
2: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) I simply ask the Treasury to index link it, so that it goes up every year, on a regular basis, rather - Speech Link
3: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) Back in 2011, the Government started using the retail prices index instead of the consumer prices index - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
LGBT History Month - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) Friend the Member for Battersea (Marsha De Cordova) just mentioned, and a pretty fantastic football team—even - Speech Link
2: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) He is now the first openly gay player in Scottish football since Justin Fashanu.Since he has come out - Speech Link