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Lord Markham (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 December 2024

Debate

Football Governance Bill [HL]

Contribution

I thank the Minister. I will not go around the same loop again. A lot of this is again around the growth and success objectives . We rehearsed those arguments quite well in the previous groups. However, I would question a new point that the Minister made: that, somehow, they would open up the regulator to legal challenge. I am not sure that I agree with that. I do not believe that the growth objectives that Ofwat, Ofgem, other regulators and the Bank of England have open them up to any more legal challenge. It is just saying that it is a criterion and trying to make sure that in any decisions they make, they have more than one objective that they are seeking to fulfil. I will not go beyond that and rehearse the arguments, but I thank the Minister and beg leave to withdraw my amendment.

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