Clause 7 - National Lottery Distribution Fund: apportionment
National Lottery Bill
12:45 pm
Richard Caborn (Minister of State (Sport), Department for Culture, Media & Sport; Sheffield Central, Labour)
It is not for the Government to decide whether it is 60 or 70 per cent.; it is a decision for the Big Lottery Fund. We do not believe that it is necessary to include that in the Bill. The hon. Gentleman has seen enough in this place to know that when a figure is put in the Bill it is set in stone. [Interruption.] Either we accept the integrity of people who are serving or we do not. I must admit that I am a little dismayed at the way that the hon. Member for East Devon impugns the integrity of people who serve on the Community Fund, the NOF and what will be the Big Lottery Fund.