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Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill [HL]

I speak as a simple searcher after truth. Let us suppose that, in 2009, £300 million is sent by the various banks to the reclaim fund and the reclaim fund decides, ““Well, we had better be careful about this; we will let £200 million go””. Let us say that 15 per cent of that has to go to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. That leaves £170 million. The Minister says that we had better crack on with this young people stuff, the deprivation of financial knowledge and so on. If the social investment bank needs £250 million, how does he believe that that could possibly happen in those circumstances—unless he takes the view, as I did much earlier, that, like the Irish, the banks and building societies got it all wrong? Is that what he is tugging to?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
697 c498GC 
Session
2007-08
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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