Interesting development
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44362522The Government is set to commission a fundamental review into the issue of standing at matches in the Premier League and Championship.
Officials have spoken to the Premier League and EFL about a review into all-seater stadiums being mandatory.
The issue will be debated in Parliament on 25 June. And government source said the "time is right" to look at the it.
Sports minister Tracey Crouch had said there were no plans to change the all-seater policy at stadiums.
She was speaking in April after West Brom, who have since been relegated from the Premier League to the Championship, had a proposal to introduce safe standing at The Hawthorns rejected by the government.
Standing in English football's top two divisions was outlawed by the Football Spectators' Act in 1989, following recommendations made in the Taylor Report into the Hillsborough disaster, which claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool fans.
But, after more than 100,000 people signed a petition which called for Premier League and Championship clubs to allow safe-standing, the issue will be discussed in Parliament.
Crouch is understood to be keen to discuss safety at stadiums, and the impact of improved technologies and stadium design.