Clause 5 - Pre-sale issue of shares, &c. to government Mr. Paice: I beg to move amendment No. 2, in
Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Bill
11:15 am
Mr James Paice (South East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
I stand corrected, Mr. Sayeed. Apparently I am not allowed to take an intervention.
I believe that we need a belt-and-braces approach because, if the Minister had been prepared to accept separate amendments to constrain to whom and for how much the Tote should be sold and the length of the lease, it would be much less necessary to ask that the matter should be brought back to the House of Commons for an affirmative statutory instrument. However, the Minister has made it clear that he is not prepared to concede on these important matters, so it is even more important that the sale arrangements should be the subject of an affirmative statutory instrument.