National Lottery Bill

If the noble Lord, Lord Phillips, were to look at the 1998 Act, he would find that Section 43 on the New Opportunities Fund went just about as far as the clause in the Bill. That is not my reason for saying a few words now. The simplest arithmetic way of dealing with additionality would be to follow the Minister’s assurance that the Big Lottery Fund will be able to manage its own affairs and to encourage it to increase the 60 per cent or 70 per cent that it puts into the voluntary and community sector to 80 per cent or 90 per cent. If the definition of the sectors puts the statutory sector as number one, the private sector making and distributing profits as number two, and voluntary and community sector as the rest, it is certain, is it not, that the higher the proportion that goes to the voluntary and community sector the greater the additionality?