Parliamentary search - National Lottery Bill

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

441 c999-1058

Session

2005-06

Department

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Legislative stage

Third reading and Report stage

Procedure

New clauses

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

National Lottery Bill. As amended in Standing Committee A.
Thursday, 3 November 2005
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1009 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister acknowledge that there is a huge difference between what he is referring to, which...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1009-11 (Link to this contribution) Against that background of the New Opportunities Fund, all I can say is that those were the general ...

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Charles Walker | 441 c1008 (Link to this contribution) It was as pleasurable the second time. Things that should have been funded by central Government ha...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1008-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr. Field) to his new position on th...

Mark Field | 441 c1011 (Link to this contribution) In that context, will the Minister answer the point that I made in my initial comments in relation t...

Mark Field | 441 c1005-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. However, in fairness, we were trying to appreciate the fact t...

Charles Walker | 441 c1008 (Link to this contribution) I accept the hon. Gentleman’s excellent intervention. It is a good intervention because it is the fi...

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1008 (Link to this contribution) I was delighted to have had the opportunity to do that, and I am delighted now that I have been able...

Charles Walker | 441 c1007-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to make a small contribution to the debate. It is alw...

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1008 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman adds to my list of examples. Does he accept that the ultimate example of funding ...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1013-4 (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately, I do not have an example, but I will find one. I will refer to the hon. Gentleman’s c...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1014 (Link to this contribution) Not to put too fine a point on it, every lottery distributor has to report to the House, through a r...

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1014-5 (Link to this contribution) The Minister still refuses to accept that we need the principle to be on the face of the Bill, but w...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1011-2 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman writes to me, I will take the matter up with the Big Lottery Fund. We will do ...

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1012 (Link to this contribution) First, before the Minister was intervened on by the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1012 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has been a Member of Parliament for many years, and he knows that Ministers do no...

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1012 (Link to this contribution) I am not rising to give the Minister the assurance that he seeks. From the Dispatch Box, he has told...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1012-3 (Link to this contribution) People reading Hansard will make their own judgment. The Liberal party tabled new clause 1, and I ha...

Charles Walker | 441 c1013 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Minister has some good news for Broxbourne on his list, because I recall that in Com...

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1025 (Link to this contribution) I had not intended to speak, but perhaps I can give the Minister an opportunity to reflect on the wo...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1024 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 1, in page 4, line 1, after ‘may’, insert

Mark Field | 441 c1024-5 (Link to this contribution) I must confess that, not having served on the Standing Committee, it seems somewhat superfluous to r...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1022-3 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman’s sentiments, but I emphasise that we do not believe that it will be...

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1023-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall begin as I began when I summed up the last debate, namely, by thanking the Minister. He has ...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1021-2 (Link to this contribution) As drafted, new clause 3 would require a distributing body to have regard to the ease of application...

Mark Field | 441 c1022 (Link to this contribution) May I say that I agree with the Minister? St. Paul’s is in my constituency and I have had dealings w...

Speaker | 441 c1018 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss amendment No. 13, in clause 11, page 7, leave out lines 4...

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1018-21 (Link to this contribution) New clause 3 deals with the important issue of the ease of applying for lottery grants. Many Members...

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1018 (Link to this contribution) : I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

Richard Caborn | 441 c1025 (Link to this contribution) It is absolutely right that this is one of the tools that we will use the maximise the lottery, by s...

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1025 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that he is optimistic that there will be a large number of bids. Since the proceed...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1025 (Link to this contribution) I shall write to the hon. Gentleman about that, because I do not know exactly how many people are in...

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1002 (Link to this contribution) While I have some sympathy with those remarks, I made it clear earlier that the grants from the nati...

David Leslie Taylor | 441 c1002 (Link to this contribution) I am often in a position to say to the Daily Mail, ““Now, come on””, but I rarely say that to the ho...

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1000-2 (Link to this contribution) The Minister, from a sedentary position, gives a confidence boost to Bath’s bid. I am delighted at t...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1000 (Link to this contribution) Yes.

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c999-1000 (Link to this contribution) I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr. Field) on his el...

Speaker | 441 c999 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:New clause 2—Additionality— 'After sectio...

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c999 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1002-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman suggests that I am merely suggesting that the Exchequer has got its sticky little...

David Leslie Taylor | 441 c1002 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to clarify my earlier remarks. I was trying to say that although constituencies, includin...

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1003 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to say that there was more to the preface. I was hoping that in the spir...

Lord Swire | 441 c1003 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman had finished the preface written by Sir John Major, which was not quoted in th...

David Leslie Taylor | 441 c1005 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that new clause 2, which was tabled by the Conservatives, would tighten up t...

Mark Field | 441 c1003 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will be glad that I am here to protect the honour of my right hon. Friend the Mem...

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1004-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I would point out that the hon. Gentleman has just g...

Speaker | 441 c1003 (Link to this contribution) Order. Perhaps we have now clarified that point and could now concentrate our remarks on the new cla...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1033-8 (Link to this contribution) Let me my preface my remarks by responding to the hon. Members for Broxbourne (Mr. Walker) and for E...

Mark Field | 441 c1038 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that that is wishful thinking on the part of the Minister. First, I want to thank the h...

Speaker | 441 c1026 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 4, in page 5, line 19, at...

Mark Field | 441 c1026-30 (Link to this contribution) [Interruption.] And people say that there is no bugging in the House. May I take this opportunity t...

Jo Swinson | 441 c1030-2 (Link to this contribution) I take this opportunity to welcome the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr. Field) ...

Charles Walker | 441 c1032-3 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire (Jo Swinson). One so young...

Mark Field | 441 c1025 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 2, in page 5, line 14, leave out ‘prescribed’.

Speaker | 441 c1054 (Link to this contribution) Order. We cannot have a series of sedentary comments.

Charles Walker | 441 c1054-5 (Link to this contribution) When the lottery was introduced, it was a great, noble and aspirational idea. It was a little like a...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1054 (Link to this contribution) I wrote to the hon. Gentleman.

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1054 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for repeating what he said earlier—

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1054 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. What the Minister said in that letter, what he said in a previous speech and what he has sai...

Mark Field | 441 c1041 (Link to this contribution) : I beg to move amendment No. 8, in page 5, line 41, leave out clause 8.

Speaker | 441 c1041 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 6, in page 6, line 7, leave...

Mark Field | 441 c1042-3 (Link to this contribution) Amendments Nos. 7 and 8 are designed to prevent a reallocation of funds that would result in current...

Jo Swinson | 441 c1043 (Link to this contribution) I, too, am aware of the pressure of time, so I shall be brief. First, I want to place it on record t...

Mark Field | 441 c1044 (Link to this contribution) We are asking only that the Minister ensure that the balances are reduced. That is what we want to h...

Lord Swire | 441 c1049 (Link to this contribution) It is a start.

Mark Field | 441 c1049-51 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, but I will have to do better in future, not least because the Royal Opera house and the Roya...

Mark Field | 441 c1049 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to make my Front Bench debut speaking on the culture and arts brief. I notice...

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1052-3 (Link to this contribution) I begin by thanking the Minister yet again. All my speeches this afternoon have begun by thanking th...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1053-4 (Link to this contribution) The question was this: do we allow those who have large balances to profit by them? Good causes prof...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1051 (Link to this contribution) I will take the hon. Gentleman to the nearest newsagent and help him fill in one of the lottery form...

Mark Field | 441 c1051-2 (Link to this contribution) I will accept that kind offer only if the Minister will also pay the £1 fee that is required for the...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1049 (Link to this contribution) Very much so. I hope that the one-door approach to the Big Lottery Fund will help those villages. It...

Peter Bone | 441 c1049 (Link to this contribution) When I was canvassing a few years ago, I knocked on a door that was opened by someone who said, ““Yo...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1048-9 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. I suppose that this would be a good time t...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1044 (Link to this contribution) I will come to that point, because it was covered in a letter that I sent to the hon. Member for Bat...

Mark Field | 441 c1005 (Link to this contribution) : Under new clause 2, we would introduce into the National Lottery Act 1993 a requirement to conside...

Richard Caborn | 441 c1044 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the House will be aware of all the pubic concern over the past five years about the h...

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1014 (Link to this contribution) I begin by thanking the Minister for his conduct of the debate on the important subject of additiona...

Lord Foster of Bath | 441 c1054 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for that protection from the Minister, who has until now been exceedi...

Subjects

Charities

Community Fund

Licensing

Distribution

National Lottery Distribution Fund

Lotteries

Prize money

National Lottery

Public expenditure

New Opportunities Fund

Millennium Commission

Voluntary organisations

Big Lottery Fund

National Lottery Commission

Legislation

National Lottery Bill 2005-06

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