My Lords, it is a pleasure to move Amendment 60 and to speak to Amendment 96 in my name. I look forward to the other amendments in this group.

This amendment continues a theme that I began on day one of our Committee debate on the Bill: the singular lack of anything in the Bill to take advantage of all the technologies, if human-led, that have such an incredible impact for the betterment of these major and mega sporting events when we bid and bring them to the United Kingdom.

Amendment 60 in essence just seeks to put in the Bill a digital twin to be part of the transport planning for major events involving 50,000 or more spectators. This would enable a variety of technologies to be deployed to drive a far better experience for spectators, all those involved with the event, and, equally importantly, all those who are not involved but are in the locality.

It is critically important, to understand the impact on those local communities and local businesses, to have real-time and effective planning by deploying digital twins so as to be able to have AI automated responses to real, live situations. We would then have that data to give to future bids and future events, for their benefit. This would deploy many technologies in concert to add to the spectator and overall event experience.

Although this involves using many so-called novel technologies, there is nothing novel, unique or ground-breaking that the Government would be doing by putting these words in the Bill. Digital twinning is well-understood and well-deployed. In fact, was a key part of the planning at, for example, Euro 2024. When I was lucky enough to be involved with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, from the outset we had many key principles, but the one I found to be the most useful, effective and impactful was to think about the experiential before doing anything operational. That is what the amendment would bring to life: what will the experience be like for all those coming to and affected by the games or the event, with human-led technologies effectively deployed to enable the spectator, fan, media and community experience while the event is taking place?

On Amendment 96, it is critically important to have something on cyber in the Bill. It is becoming an increasingly clear and present danger for major and mega sporting events and across the piece. Imagine if we had the Commonwealth Games or a FIFA Women’s World Cup and a cyber attack happened on the ticketing machines and people could not access the venues. Imagine if there was a cyber attack on the vehicles being used to get the players to the event or a cyber attack on the transport network, with spectators trapped underground or at traffic lights that either do not change from red or have no colour on them at all. These are just some examples of how even one element of a cyber attack would be extraordinarily disruptive and import unnecessary danger and safety considerations into the event, but for having cyber planning and cyber resilience in the Bill.

I will be interested in the Minister’s response, because I cannot think why the Government would not want to have this set out in the Bill. It would not tie bids or events into any particular technology or cluster of technologies; it would set out the clear principles, which the bidders and local organising committees could work out the finer details on and, indeed, the regulations that would sit underneath them. That is the purpose of making these Bills.

We have been told from the outset that the purpose of the Bill is to be able to pull it out of the file whenever we want to bid for one of these major or mega events without needing to create primary legislation again. Although we heard on day one that that is unlikely to be the case in any event, if we at least think through these issues and have them set out in the Bill, it would mean that this has been thought through at the principles level and covered off, so we do not need to have this included in the subsequent statute, which will inevitably have to happen in any event.

In conclusion, it is simply about taking the opportunities of these human-led technologies to enable the experience of the event, to drive efficiency and effectiveness in the planning and the delivery of these events, to make them more secure and safer, and to make sure that when the flame goes out at the end of the event and the athletes, players and the media go to Heathrow or other airports and departure points, everybody has had an inclusive, safe and secure experience, powered through human-led technology. I look forward to the Minister’s response. I beg to move.