Select committee: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Conclusion 4
Fourth Report - What next for the National Lottery?
Published 22 Nov 2022
Paragraph 35
Addressed to Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee What next for the National Lottery? All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
The Gambling Commission should, within six months of the licence process being complete, review its licence competition design process, highlighting areas of failure, and report back to the Committee with its findings. This should include an assessment of changes necessary to transparency and confidentiality rules to facilitate greater parliamentary oversight of the next licence competition.
From: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Fourth Report - What next for the National Lottery? (HC 154), paragraph 35, 22 November 2022
Government response
Seventh Special Report - What next for the National Lottery?: Government and Gambling Commission Responses to the Committee’s Fourth Report
The government responded to the whole report on 10 March 2023 (deadline 3 March 2023).
Twelfth Special Report - What next for the National Lottery?: National Lottery Distributors’ Response to the Committee’s Fourth Report
Published 23 October 2023.
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The 12 National Lottery Distributors say they "welcome the Committee's focus on grant acknowledgement" and set out the changes each has "committed to" in response to Recommendation 9.
- The Distributors state they "have taken on the committee's recommendation to consider" how recipients can more effectively ensure beneficiaries know the source of funding.
- The National Lottery Community Fund says all new £1m+ grant holders "will now be provided a communications protocol" setting out expectations over the life of their award.
- Arts Council England is "currently reviewing" its grant terms and conditions to introduce scaled acknowledgement requirements, and its relationship work "could include" consequences for non-compliance.
- Arts Council Wales says it will announce a new group of multi-year funded organisations in April 2024, aligned with a re-branding exercise.