Parliamentary search - Football Clubs (Governance)

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

515 c73-98WH

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Steve Rotheram | 515 c74-5WH (Link to this contribution) I imagine that my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent North (Joan Walley) and Robbie Williams ...

Speaker | 515 c74WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Will Members please keep interventions short?

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Joan Walley | 515 c74WH (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. I have to declare an interest; I am a season-ti...

Steve Rotheram | 515 c73-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have been granted the opportunity to debate this issue. I am equally delighted to ...

Speaker | 515 c76WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Can we keep the interventions as short as possible? Many hon. Members want to take part in th...

Steve Rotheram | 515 c76WH (Link to this contribution) Just to build on what I said, the proposal is very doable. A recent example of democracy in action h...

George Howarth | 515 c76WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on his choice of subject for today's debate. Does he accept that the i...

Steve Rotheram | 515 c76WH (Link to this contribution) I totally agree with my right hon. Friend; there is not a one-size-fits-all response to this problem...

Hazel Blears | 515 c75WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on obtaining what is probably the most popular debate ever in Westmins...

Steve Rotheram | 515 c75WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. As for the ““fit and proper person”” test, it was one of the recommendations in the 2009...

Toby Perkins | 515 c75WH (Link to this contribution) The amount of money that my hon. Friend mentions demonstrates the extent to which such a suggestion ...

Steve Rotheram | 515 c76-7WH (Link to this contribution) Give us an easy one! The tribal nature of football, which I will come to later if I have the opportu...

Alec Shelbrooke | 515 c76WH (Link to this contribution) On the specific point about governance from the fans, does the hon. Gentleman know—perhaps the right...

Therese Coffey | 515 c77WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my fellow Liverpool supporter on securing this debate. However, I do not agree that G...

Steve Rotheram | 515 c79WH (Link to this contribution) I absolutely join my hon. Friend in paying tribute to those supporters. I think that we ignore footb...

Hugh Robertson | 515 c79WH (Link to this contribution) I have been listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman. However, it is only fair to say that Spain ha...

Steve Rotheram | 515 c77-9WH (Link to this contribution) I think that if that recommendation emerged from this debate and was supported by Members in the hon...

Lord Walney | 515 c79WH (Link to this contribution) In Barrow, many people share their love of Barrow AFC with support for other successful clubs; I wou...

Steve Rotheram | 515 c80-1WH (Link to this contribution) It is a difficult issue. I am a supporter of one of the supposedly big four—Manchester United, Arsen...

Jim Shannon | 515 c81WH (Link to this contribution) One thing that people have mentioned to me is their concern about admission fees. A well-heeled Chel...

Steve Rotheram | 515 c79-80WH (Link to this contribution) I hear what the Minister is saying. I myself do not think that the Barcelona model or any other mode...

Gregory Campbell | 515 c80WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on the timeliness of this debate. Does he not agree that an essent...

Penny Mordaunt | 515 c81WH (Link to this contribution) I am a Portsmouth fan, so I welcome the momentum behind football reform, but I would like to introdu...

Steve Rotheram | 515 c81WH (Link to this contribution) The dichotomy is that in some of the foreign models where football supporters are represented on boa...

Speaker | 515 c82WH (Link to this contribution) Before we proceed any further, I should say that a number of people have indicated that they wish to...

Mark Field | 515 c82-3WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Steve Rotheram) on enticing a bigger attendanc...

Alec Shelbrooke | 515 c83WH (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?

Mark Field | 515 c83-4WH (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend will excuse me, I will not. I know others want to contribute, so I shall speak for...

Speaker | 515 c84WH (Link to this contribution) Order. It is my intention to call the Front Benchers at 10.45 am. I call Barbara Keeley.

Baroness Keeley | 515 c84WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Robertson. I congratulate my hon. Friend the M...

Steve Rotheram | 515 c84WH (Link to this contribution) Much further afield.

Baroness Keeley | 515 c85-6WH (Link to this contribution) And those from much further afield. The constituents who have contacted me are also members of the M...

Steve Rotheram | 515 c81-2WH (Link to this contribution) What happened to Portsmouth is an absolute disgrace. Football supporters on the relevant boards migh...

Hugh Robertson | 515 c86WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady want me to respond now?

Robert Halfon | 515 c86-8WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Steve Rotheram) on securing this important deb...

Baroness Keeley | 515 c86WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister can do so when he summing up, given the number of hon. Members who wish to speak. It m...

Justin Tomlinson | 515 c91-2WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Steve Rotheram) on securing the debate. We hav...

Tom Greatrex | 515 c90-1WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Robertson, for the opportunity to speak in this important, significant and—judging by ...

Gerry Sutcliffe | 515 c93-4WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Robertson. I congratulate my hon. Friend...

Dai Havard | 515 c92-3WH (Link to this contribution) I am deliberately wearing a Merthyr rugby club tie this morning, and I have come to talk about Wales...

George Howarth | 515 c88WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, as a Member for St Helens, should know that there is an alternative club available: ...

Lord Watts | 515 c88WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Steve Rotheram) for securing the debate—he ...

Richard Fuller | 515 c89-90WH (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief because I have a bit of a cold. I am probably in a unique position. When I was see...

Lord Watts | 515 c88-9WH (Link to this contribution) I know that that club has an illustrious past. I remember that a prominent member of the Liverpool s...

Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 515 c94-5WH (Link to this contribution) During the election, both major parties promised to tackle the issues of debt, better regulation, tr...

Gerry Sutcliffe | 515 c94WH (Link to this contribution) I am happy to do that, and to congratulate all supporters' trusts on the innovative models they have...

Alison McGovern | 515 c94WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentioned supporters' trusts. Will he congratulate the Tranmere Rovers supporters clo...

Cathy Jamieson | 515 c96WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the point about one size not fitting all. Will the Minister return to a point made by a...

Hugh Robertson | 515 c96WH (Link to this contribution) To be honest with the right hon. Gentleman, whom I know well, I am prepared to consider any sensible...

George Howarth | 515 c96WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr Field) mentioned the difficulties in dealin...

Hugh Robertson | 515 c96WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. Here we get into the problem with the process. It is pointless for me to pretend that th...

Lord Watts | 515 c96WH (Link to this contribution) May I caution the Minister against seeing a solution for the rest of football in the example of Arse...

Hugh Robertson | 515 c95-6WH (Link to this contribution) Before I start, Mr Robertson, may I pay tribute to the work done by the hon. Member for Bradford Sou...

Gerry Sutcliffe | 515 c95WH (Link to this contribution) A starting point would be to follow through with the seven questions put to the football authorities...

Gerry Sutcliffe | 515 c97WH (Link to this contribution) indicated assent.

Hugh Robertson | 515 c96-7WH (Link to this contribution) I am happy to deal with that point, which relates to points made by the hon. Member for Bradford Sou...

Jason McCartney | 515 c98WH (Link to this contribution) I am lucky that Huddersfield Town, the football club that I support, which is on the edge of my cons...

Hugh Robertson | 515 c97-8WH (Link to this contribution) The shadow Minister is nodding; he has been through all this. Other demands include corporation tax ...

Speaker | 515 c98WH (Link to this contribution) Order.

Hugh Robertson | 515 c98WH (Link to this contribution) The trouble with debates such as this is that they quickly turn into a basket of issues. We have not...

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