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National Lottery Bill

I am grateful to the Minister for his response and I am delighted to hear him say that the Government have learnt and moved on. That, indeed, is progress. He gave me some reassurance that they are going to be less prescriptive than they were in the past. But on these directions, has the department finalised them and do they have any draft directions that we can see during the passage of this Bill? When does he think that they will be published? We are in this extraordinary limbo: the Government have created the Big Lottery Fund and now they are chasing up by statute to put it on a statutory footing. When will the directions come before Parliament and how soon after the Bill becomes an Act does the Minister envisage coming back to lay the directions before the House under the affirmative procedure?