division_name: National Lottery Bill
motion: <p class="" pid="a.159.3/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.159.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">It is 10 years since the national lottery was introduced, and it has grown to be part of our national way of life; indeed, some would now call it an institution. That is underlined by the fact that 70 per cent. of us play on a regular basis. Last year, just under 5 billion tickets were sold. Over the period of its life, the lottery has raised about &#163;17 billion for good causes. By any standards, it has been a huge success, and I give credit to the Opposition for introducing it when they were in power. In particular, the Prime Minister of the time, John Major, played a major role in introducing the lottery, which has had broad support across the House for that decade or so. That is to the credit of all those on both sides of the House who promoted the original National Lottery Bill back in 1993 and developed it further in 1998.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.172.0/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move, to leave out from "That" to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a.172.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">"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."</p>
  
  <p pid="a.218.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put,</i> That the amendment be made:&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.218.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>The House divided:</i> Ayes 197, Noes 290.</p>