Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill [HL]

I cannot answer that question directly but we are concerned about the issue of the third sector. That is why we have got the provision in the Bill which potentially will be of benefit to it. I cannot go through an exhaustive list of potential consultees. We recognised that this was a challenging concept and that we had to talk outside government—as we did—but I am not trying to bring alongside the Government’s final decision any institutions which wholeheartedly embrace the Government’s objectives; that is not their role and it is not their job. In producing a Bill of this kind it is for the Government to set objectives which command the assent of the nation, as expressed through their parliamentary representatives and their deliberative Assemblies.