Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Guidance) Regulations 2024, followed by a motion to approve the draft Licensing Act 2003 (UEFA European Football - Speech Link
2: Ian Mearns (Lab - Gateshead) club, who were victorious and lifted the FA trophy at Wembley last Saturday? - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) him—I think the whole House will join him—in celebrating this wonderful achievement by his much-loved club - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) The Union of the United Kingdom is critical to our strength. - Speech Link
5: Sam Tarry (Lab - Ilford South) They did not mention that he served for 40 years playing on the parliamentary rugby team, and just a - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Monks (Lab - Life peer) I know that the football and rugby—both union and league—authorities are trying to improve research and - Speech Link
2: Lord Hayward (Con - Life peer) My Lords, this afternoon I am wearing my rugby club tie: Kings Cross Steelers Rugby Club. - Speech Link
3: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) It was a community club that has had to merge again, which tells another story, and is now Lakenham Union - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) He spoke proudly and powerfully about the community work undertaken by Everton Football Club. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None club, Southall football club. - Speech Link
2: None of Burnley football club all my life. - Speech Link
3: Damian Collins (Con - Folkestone and Hythe) We have quite a strong structure of engagement with the players: the players’ union, and the Professional - Speech Link
4: None I also have another chair role in football and a quasi-board role with Premiership Rugby, so I now have - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kevin Brennan (Lab - Cardiff West) Member for Worcester (Mr Walker) pointed out, there is perhaps a strong case for doing so in rugby union - Speech Link
2: Charlotte Nichols (Lab - Warrington North) Although Warrington is known primarily as a rugby league town, we also have many thousands of football - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) Will the Secretary of State join me in congratulating the amazing success of Romford football club, which - Speech Link
2: Lucy Frazer (Con - South East Cambridgeshire) First, I extend my congratulations to Romford football club on reaching the final of the FA vase—it is - Speech Link
3: Lucy Frazer (Con - South East Cambridgeshire) I am very pleased to congratulate Portsmouth football club on its success. My hon. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Ian Paisley (DUP - North Antrim) have raised a number of concerns about the fact that because we have a land border with the European Union - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) participating in most physical contact sports carries a risk of injury, but we are not going to ban football - Speech Link
3: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) Member for South West Norfolk, walked in with her book and her fan club, and now we have the absurd spectacle - Speech Link
4: Brendan Clarke-Smith (Con - Bassetlaw) Yes, it used things such as snus, which was outlawed throughout the rest of the European Union. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Robin Walker (Con - Worcester) time on the future of rugby union and how we ensure that professional rugby in England is effectively - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) We will continue to work with the rugby authorities, including the Rugby Football Union, premiership - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) English Football League is responding today. - Speech Link
2: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) One such group in my constituency is the Friends Together Club, based in Coatbridge, which has been running - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I would say from all of us: congratulations to all in the Friends Together Club, and thank you for your - Speech Link
4: Mark Pawsey (Con - Rugby) Rugby is providing new housing at scale, yet the number of pharmacies in our town is falling. - Speech Link
5: James Sunderland (Con - Bracknell) The Leader of the House might have seen in the news this week that Reading football club intends to sell - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford and Eccles) Every year, I was dispatched to the Irish centre, St Kentigern’s, Chorlton Irish Club and the Southern—you - Speech Link
2: Karen Bradley (Con - Staffordshire Moorlands) Member for Salford and Eccles mentioned the football clubs. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) I also pay tribute to the Iona club, which is somewhere people of Irish ancestry can go to socialise - Speech Link
4: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) I remember the Ramelton Club in Linnvale, my home town; it is why I decided, with others such as Danny - Speech Link
5: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) role of the Irish diaspora here, and to strengthen our communities living alongside each other.The rugby - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) must have a mention, but I spoke about rugby in the last two debates so I will not make hon. - Speech Link
2: Carolyn Harris (Lab - Swansea East) being born, which is rather scary—helped to launch the Christmas appeal, did bucket collections at the football - Speech Link
3: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) I checked before the debate, and the first show will be by the band The Bug Club. Before hon. - Speech Link
4: Jo Stevens (Lab - Cardiff Central) Friend the Member for Gower (Tonia Antoniazzi) talked about rugby and cockles. My hon. - Speech Link
5: David T C Davies (Con - Monmouth) promised that farmers would not lose out by one single penny as a result of our leaving the European Union - Speech Link