Ministerial statement on Monday, 1 June 2015, in the House of Lords, led by Earl of Courtown.

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Lords statement on what further actions his Government will take following the election of Sepp Blatter as president of FIFA.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 762 cc181-5
Session: 2015-16
Department: Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions: Earl of Courtown | 762 c181 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, with the leave of the House I beg to repeat a Statement read earlier by my right honour...; Lord Collins of Highbury | 762 cc181-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, since we last discussed football in your Lordships’ House, we have had bad news and goo...; Earl of Courtown | 762 c182 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for those questions. He wishes the Government to convene a summi...; Baroness Doocey | 762 c182 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, how do the Government respond to the comments of the FA chairman that while an FA boyco...; Earl of Courtown | 762 c182 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Baroness mentioned a boycott of FIFA by UEFA and basically called for a possi...; Baroness Billingham | 762 c182 (Link to this contribution)
The Achilles heel of FIFA is money. The longer we leave it before we take positive action as a Go...; Earl of Courtown | 762 c183 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Baroness mentioned sponsorship. She is quite right about its importance and a...; Lord Stern of Brentford | 762 c183 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I should declare an interest as I was directly involved with the English bid—a rather g...; Earl of Courtown | 762 c183 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Lord is quite right. I know only too well from acquaintances of mine in west ...; Lord Cunningham of Felling | 762 c183 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as the noble Viscount, Lord Ridley, pointed out to us in a newspaper article today, the...; Earl of Courtown | 762 c183 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, unfortunately I did not have the pleasure of reading my noble friend’s column today. Pe...; Lord Addington | 762 c183 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, does the noble Earl agree that this demonstrates that government cannot remove itself f...; Earl of Courtown | 762 c184 (Link to this contribution)
I think I can agree in part with what the noble Lord, Lord Addington, said. However, it is up to ...; Viscount Ridley | 762 c184 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, to go just a tiny bit further than the noble Lord, Lord Cunningham, went a moment ago, ...; Earl of Courtown | 762 c184 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I think that part of my noble friend’s question was a little outside this Statement. I ...; Lord Soley | 762 c184 (Link to this contribution)
Following the preceding exchanges on the international aspect of these organisations, should we n...; Earl of Courtown | 762 c184 (Link to this contribution)
The noble Lord is quite right that we should congratulate the United States Department of Justice...; Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 762 c184 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is tempting to wring our hands at the re-election of Mr Blatter, as I think every co...; Earl of Courtown | 762 c185 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Lord is right in many ways. My right honourable friend the Secretary of State...
Subjects: Corruption Elections Football FIFA Blatter, Sepp
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