Football Governance Bill - Regulation of English men鈥檚 professional football: RPC Opinion (Green rated)
Regulatory Policy Committee opinion on the Football Governance - Regulation of English men鈥檚 professional football Bill IA
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Update - 25 October 2024
皇冠体育app Government introduced the Football Governance Bill on 24 October 2024 and published an updated IA reflecting changes made to it since the version on which the RPC produced this opinion. DCMS considers the changes made are not significant and that the RPC鈥檚 opinion remains relevant.
Original summary - 20 March 2024
皇冠体育app proposal would establish an independent regulator with statutory powers. 皇冠体育appse powers include regulation of finance, corporate governance, ownership, club heritage and fan engagement, and backstop powers over revenue distribution.
皇冠体育app IA provides a satisfactory indicative assessment of the direct impacts on business, in line with RPC requirements for primary legislation stage IAs. 皇冠体育app assessment of impacts on small and micro businesses is sufficient. 皇冠体育app IA follows Treasury Green Book good practice on options identification and short-listing. 皇冠体育app cost benefit analysis overall is satisfactory. 皇冠体育appre are some areas for improvement in this and in the assessment of wider impacts and the monitoring and evaluation plan. 皇冠体育app IA describes how impacts will depend on secondary legislation and regulator codes of practice. 皇冠体育app RPC would expect to see these assessments for validation of direct business impacts, subject to better regulation framework requirements.