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Speech in Grand Committee - Wed 04 Jun 2025
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill

"My Lords, I apologise for not having been present for the Second Reading debate on this Bill—it is a subject rather dear to my heart—and for not being here at the beginning of this Committee’s proceedings this afternoon. In both cases, I had unmoveable previous commitments. I rise to express …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Wed 04 Jun 2025
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill

"My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 5 and 6 in the names of my noble friends on the Front Bench.

As I have said, I was the Minister for the Cabinet Office for five long years, during the entirety of the coalition Government—I am not sure that anyone else …..."

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Speech in Grand Committee - Wed 04 Jun 2025
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill

"The noble Lord’s point about what we mean when we talk of a public authority is really important. I make a distinction between entities that are part of central government—where the writ of the Cabinet Office and the Treasury should absolutely run without exception for these purposes—and the wider public …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 25 Mar 2025
Disruption at Heathrow

"My Lords, I should probably declare an interest as one of the tens of thousands of people who, in the small hours of Friday morning, had his flight turned round in mid-air and returned to the point of departure. In my case, the flight departed from the Caribbean where, I …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 11 Mar 2025
Football Governance Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I rise merely to add my support to what has been said, and to commend the Government for having been on a journey to recognise some of the points made in Committee, which, as my noble friend Lord Parkinson said from the Front Bench, was some two months …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 11 Mar 2025
Football Governance Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I think there is a severe danger of there being a consensus around the sentiments, at any rate, reflected in this group of amendments. The point has been made by a number of your Lordships that this is what good clubs do. Successful clubs are deeply rooted in, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 11 Mar 2025
Football Governance Bill [HL]

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 11 Mar 2025
Football Governance Bill [HL]

"My Lords, Amendment 8 is in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Goodman of Wycombe. I do not need to detain your Lordships for long on this.

The amendment puts into the Bill what the Minister has already committed to in her letter to my noble friend …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 11 Mar 2025
Football Governance Bill [HL]

"Of course, it is right that it is usual for an adverse vote in a Select Committee where there is pre-appointment scrutiny to be only advisory. I cannot remember, but there may even have been an example of a Government ignoring that, and it has not been binding. If the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 11 Mar 2025
Football Governance Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for their contributions to this important debate. On the comments made at the outset by the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, I am open-minded about whether the Bill should contain what is effectively a veto or whether it should accord with the more …..."
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