Clause 11 - Distributing bodies: publicity
National Lottery Bill
10:45 am
Richard Caborn (Minister of State (Sport), Department for Culture, Media & Sport; Sheffield Central, Labour)
The hon. Gentleman can read Hansard. His hon. Friend the Member for East Devon said in the Committee’s first sitting:
“Honeyed words indeed, but unfortunately clause 36E(1) of the Government’s own Bill states:
‘In exercising any of its functions the Big Lottery Fund shall comply with any direction given to it by the Secretary of State’.
We shall debate later just what the Big Lottery Fund is and just who is responsible for appointing it. I think that we shall find—lo and behold—that it will be the Secretary of State, so we are not reassured by that. This is another example of the Government’s raid on the lottery.—[Official Report, Standing Committee A, 25 October 2005; c. 32.]
So it goes on. People will read that in Hansard.