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Lord Pannick (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 15 January 2025

Debate

Football Governance Bill [HL]

Contribution

My Lords, I hope that before Report the Government will carefully consider how best to ensure post-legislative scrutiny of the Bill. That is the issue being raised here. There are many ways of achieving it and I would welcome the Government thinking about it and discussing with noble Lords who have been expressing concerns how it is to be achieved. I also hope that, before Report, the Government will give very careful thought to the comments made by the noble Lord, Lord Birt, earlier about the ways in which the Bill can be amended or implemented to ensure proportionate, light-touch regulation, which I think many of us around the Committee are concerned to achieve. It is a difficult thing to achieve, but it needs to be to be achieved and, if it can be achieved, I think that will alleviate many of the concerns that have been expressed in Committee.

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