Member

On Amendment 97 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Addington, and Amendment 102 in the name of my noble friend Lord Bassam of Brighton, I acknowledge and share the excitement of the recent growth of women’s football—this is something that noble Lords will be clear that I also feel passionately about—and I recognise the need to monitor whether it too needs the protections that we are introducing for the men’s game. However, the Government do not believe that a regular review of women’s football automatically carried out by the regulator is the best way to achieve that.