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National Lottery Bill

I absolutely bow to the view of the Minister that I was making paving remarks in my earlier intervention. South West Trains was in chaos on Thursday night and some of the chaos has spilt over to today. I was detrained at Basingstoke and have been running behind time ever since, so I am grateful to the noble Lord for having corrected me. That said, in the Minister’s response to my noble friend Lord Eccles, I could not help noting an admission on the part of the Minister that, in the Government’s view, the level of instruction given by government in the previous Parliament was wrong and that on this occasion they should therefore adopt a looser rein. That admission underlines and emphasises every amendment coming from this side of the Committee. We are clearly attacking a target which the Government themselves have just exposed.