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Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill [HL]

Parliament has its time taken up to create this body and there is therefore sufficient public interest for the Government to take legislative time. However, after that, Parliament will be told that it is nothing to do with it. It is all very well saying that the fund is a private company. We have established that it has public purposes, as Ministers have said. Parliament has a clear interest in the effective working-out of the scheme that Parliament is being asked to support. I do not understand, and perhaps the Minister will explain, why the Government believe that it is inappropriate for Parliament to be given information on this scheme. It seems to me to be wholly necessary.