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Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 15: 15: Clause 15, page 8, line 5, after ““Fund”” insert ““, under the name of ““the Reawakened Fund””,”” The noble Lord said: My Lords, we return to territory that is familiar to those of us who have been in Grand Committee—the name of the dormant account money that is in the hands of the Big Lottery Fund. I suggest that this should be called ““the Reawakened Fund””. The Minister made some helpful comments in Committee. It is clear that the fund will be kept separate, that it will be marketed separately and that it will be accounted for separately. I want to be certain that it will be labelled separately. In a sense, there is a lot of ““re”” about this Bill—there is reference to reuniting and reclaiming, so it is appropriate that these dormant funds are being ““reawakened””. I indicated in Committee that there are people—perhaps they are a minority, even a small minority, but they are there—who do not want to apply for, or use, funds that they believe are from the National Lottery. They believe that their causes should not benefit from the proceeds of gambling. Therefore it is very important that the fund is properly named. We have had a week or two to think about it. I have not come up with anything else and neither have the Government. So let us have another try and use the word ““reawakened””. I beg to move.

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Reference

698 c601-2 

Session

2007-08

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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