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Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill [HL]

I am grateful for the tenor of the Minister’s reply. He did not answer all the points that I made, which he recognised. I hope that what I said in my introductory remarks will be self-explanatory when we have Hansard available to us. They focused on my suggestion that the wording either gives the wrong result or does not cater for certain categories of receipt and expenditure. If the Minister’s officials cannot follow that, I am happy to take them through some further worked examples to see how it flows through in practice. I hope that he will reflect—as I think that he did in his comments—that I was seeking to make the Bill unambiguous. In the one category where I gave a solution as to where the money should go, I was not being dogmatic about whether one recycles; I was merely saying that one needs an answer about whether it flows through the apportionable mechanism or is recycled within a category. I am happy to withdraw the amendment on the basis that, between now and Report, we will have the opportunity to bottom these matters out. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. [Amendments Nos. 58 and 59 not moved.]