National Lottery Bill

My Lords, clearly my noble friend Lord Phillips is a pushover. I do not recall having a copy of that letter. I have looked through my file of letters from the Minister, of which there are many and all of them greatly welcome, but I do not see a copy of the letter to my noble friend Lord Phillips. What is interesting about the Minister’s reply, which he clearly took great care in putting forward, is that by and large it is completely irrelevant. It relates to subsection (b) of that particular clause, almost entirely:"““publishing information relating to the distribution of money under this Act or the expenditure of money distributed under this Act””." I have no argument whatever with that subsection. I welcome the Minister’s speech; I always welcome the Minister’s speech where I possibly can. But, apart from maybe one or two sentences, he did not really address paragraph (c),"““encouraging participation in activities relating to the National Lottery in general””." He merely repeated what he said the last time, which was about the activities of the National Lottery promotions unit. He did not address the particular point that I made, about the drafting of that particular paragraph. We still have another stage of this Bill and I ask the Minister to take a further look at this issue. Rather than looking at completely the wrong paragraph, it would be helpful if he could look at paragraph (c) between now and Third Reading and see whether it has drafting flaws. I entirely agree that the distributors should be entitled to insist on National Lottery Day, with a National Lottery promotions unit and so on—there is nothing between us. What is between us is what that paragraph could be used to do, in terms of promoting, and participation in, the Lottery. I do not believe that there is any point of principle between us, it is all about what the paragraph actually says. I see the Minister nodding and I take huge encouragement from that. I look forward to Third Reading and beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.