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Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill [HL]

If the noble Lord will forgive me, I strayed from the fund and from this Bill to respond to the noble Lord, Lord Howard, who introduced an example of Big in relation to lottery distribution. There was no concept that that would obtain to this Bill and the fund—that must be for the judgments of those who operate the fund. However, it will be recognised that there is a difference between the amounts available under this fund and the exercise with which Big is involved on the distribution of lottery funds. On the other point, the Government, in reaching this judgment, canvassed other possibilities. The noble Lord would struggled to identify a body that has the range of operations throughout the United Kingdom which Big represents and that is engaged in an exercise not wholly dissimilar to that which it is expected to carry out for the fund. That is why the choice of Big was obtained.