Clause 8 - Reallocation of funds
National Lottery Bill
1:15 pm
Hugo Swire (Shadow Minister (the Arts), The Family & Culture, Media & Sport; East Devon, Conservative)
The hon. Gentleman is right that the heritage sector is concerned about these and subsequent amendments. Does he agree that if pressure of this sort was applied to the HLF, it could result in an acceleration of allocations and grants and in the money being drawn down in a way that might be unwise given the complicated nature of many of the funding programmes that the HLF undertakes, and that it would lead to less control, rather than better control, being exercised over the money being spent?