Source · Select Committees · Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 2
2
Deferred
Establish a Shadow Independent Regulator for English Football by end of 2023 and pass required legislation.
Recommendation
We recommend that the Government should establish the Independent Regulator for English Football in a shadow form by the end of 2023 to ensure that it can begin initial engagement and preparatory work before waiting for legislation to be passed. The Government should ensure the legislation needed to give statutory powers to the Independent Regulator are included in the forthcoming King’s Speech and ensure that legislation is passed in this present Parliament. (Paragraph 13) Fan engagement
Government response summary AI-generated
The government agrees on the importance of transitional arrangements but then entirely pivots its response to discussing fan engagement standards, the Regulator's role in oversight, and existing club engagement, without addressing the specific recommendation to establish a shadow regulator by end of 2023 or the timeline for legislation.
Summary of the government's response below — read the verbatim text to verify.
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government · verbatim extract
Deferred
The Government agrees that regulatory reform should happen sooner rather than later. The Government is working at pace to deliver an independent regulator on a statutory footing as soon as parliamentary time allows. As outlined above, the White Paper sets out a framework for reform and we would encourage the football authorities to implement some of these reforms of their own accord, ahead of a statutory body being fully established. We would particularly urge them to do so in order to protect clubs that are currently at risk. Further to this, we continue to explore how best to prepare for the establishment of the new regulator, including supporting industry’s transition to the new regime. A formal regulator transition team operating in shadow form would require Second Reading of a Bill to have taken place, but work is happening at pace regardless to ensure preparatory work can take place.
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