Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill [HL]

I am grateful to all noble Lords who have participated in this interesting debate. We have certainly changed gear; it always adds a certain liveliness to proceedings when we discuss spending. We shall discuss these issues for a little while yet. An amendment has been tabled with the dreaded concept of additionality added to it. I say ““dreaded”” because for those noble Lords who were not present when we discussed the lottery several years ago—and I exclude the noble Viscount, Lord Eccles, who was present at the debates—we had endless discussions on the issue of additionality. No one in the Committee can underestimate the glee with which I saw this concept reappear in an amendment—and predictably so. It will raise the same problems of definition, too, when we actually get to it. Let me deal immediately with one canard—and in doing so I may also help the noble Lord, Lord Hamilton, with his query. The Prime Minister was referring to government expenditure in the Comprehensive Spending Review over three years. He identified that the sum of nearly £700 million should be spent on youth services as government expenditure. During our deliberations we will have plenty of opportunity to explore just how we are going to do this, but we are at pains to meet exactly the point that the right reverend Prelate identified.