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Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill [HL]

The Government cannot abdicate their responsibility in this regard. They have brought forward this Bill to cover the precise circumstances of taking dormant account money into a company and then on to the Big Lottery Fund. They cannot just say, ““We haven’t the faintest idea what these organisations that are nothing to do with the Government are going to do about setting up the body in the middle. We’re going to put some rather odd bits in legislation, we’re going to resist any suggestion that there should be further transparency in relation to this body, and we expect Parliament to accept that proposition””. I cannot think of any example when any Government have asked Parliament to pass a Bill on such a flaky basis.