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  National Lottery Bill
  
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  <p>The opposition attempted (but failed) to change the motion under debate from</p>
  
  <p class="indent"><i>I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.</i></p>
  
  <p>to</p>
  
  <p class="indent"><i>"I beg to move, That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the National Lottery Bill because it creates the Big Lottery Fund, which will take the National Lottery further away from its original purpose of providing new resources to charities, sport, heritage and the arts; because it breaches the principle of additionality and allows the Secretary of State too much interference over the direction of Lottery funds and distributors; because it fails to restore funding to the original four good causes, which have lost &#163;3 billion in Lottery funding since 1998; and because it fails to give the public sufficient say in where Lottery funding will go."</i></p>
  
  <p>In particular, those voting Aye in this division were concerned that the government was increasing its power over what National Lottery proceeds could be spent on and that they would use those power to spend National Lottery money on things that taxes would normally cover - thus making the National Lottery a stealth tax on the 70% of the population who play regularly.</p>
  
  <p><i>The House divided:</i> Ayes 197, Noes 290.</p>
  
  
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