Clause 9 - Investment income
National Lottery Bill
2:45 pm
Don Foster (Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, Culture, Media & Sport; Bath, Liberal Democrat)
I will in a second, because I will be so brief that the Minister can respond to the two points that I shall make.
The Minister has been at great pains to point out in our deliberations on Tuesday and today that what a Minister says is crucial and that it should be a key determinant of how the legislation is interpreted. The Minister said on Second Reading:
“Nothing in the Bill will allow money to be taken from heritage and spent on something else.”—[Official Report, 14 June 2005; Vol. 435, c. 169.]
Will he confirm that that is what he said, and will he tell us clearly that the National Heritage Fund is incorrect in its estimation that it will lose out?