Northampton Town Football Club Debate
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Lord McNally
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Northampton Town Football Club
Lord McNally Excerpts(3 years, 8 months ago)
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Lord Greenhalgh (Con)
My Lords, there are plenty of examples of investment in community sport infrastructure by local authorities and a lot of them make sense. What does not make sense is the pursuit entirely for commercial income. We saw in the London Borough of Croydon the investment in the Croydon Park Hotel, for instance. Another example is the Robin Hood Energy company in Nottingham, where there was an overreliance on commercial income to balance the books.
Lord McNally (LD) [V]
My Lords, will the Minister promise to bring this exchange to the attention of his colleague Nigel Huddleston, the Minister for Sport, and suggest to him that it is time for the Conservative Government to fulfil their manifesto commitment to a fan-led inquiry into the governance of football?
Lord Greenhalgh (Con)
My Lords, I am happy to take away all these suggestions around how we can improve the governance of our national game.