Select committee: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 7
Fourth Report - What next for the National Lottery?
Published 22 Nov 2022
Paragraph 47
Addressed to Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We recommend that the Gambling Commission commissions research into the gambling harms of National Lottery advertising and marketing, including any personalisation that may lead to the promotion of higher-risk products to vulnerable players. We would expect that to occur within the next six months and for the Committee to then be kept up to date on the details of the research and its findings and policy changes that will result from it.
From: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Fourth Report - What next for the National Lottery? (HC 154), paragraph 47, 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.