Member

As my noble friends have said, the Government are still not willing to disclose the letter from UEFA to the Secretary of State, so the Committee is operating without having seen it and without being able to be sure about whether UEFA is content with all the provisions of this proposed regulatory regime. I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Addington, up to a point: we do not necessarily want UEFA to dictate the regime that we as a sovereign Parliament are looking at, but I think that all football fans would hope, as we look at this legislation and think about the appropriate regulatory regime, that we are mindful of the stipulations that competitions English teams currently participate in are not breached in a way that threatens our participation in them.