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Dunfermline Building Society Compensation Scheme, Resolution Fund and Third Party Compensation Order 2009

Thank you. It is the arthritis of old age. These are the problems that occur if you live long enough. I declare an interest in that many decades ago I was a Dunfermline Building Society manager. I do not intend to repeat the few remarks which I made in the Chamber pre the surveillance of the Statutory Instruments Committee. What I want to say, which follows on from the noble Baroness’s point, is that it is not very clear up there—I live in Scotland—just where we are going with the housing association loan book, which has apparently gone to the Nationwide. On the surface and in public terms, that is a somewhat grey area. If the Minister could be specific on that issue, it would be helpful not only to me and other Members present but to the wider public in Scotland, because the Scotsman newspaper, at least, has tended to publish detailed information.