Select committee: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Conclusion 9
Fourth Report - What next for the National Lottery?
Published 22 Nov 2022
Paragraph 58
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)
While it is clearly the case that the National Lottery poses significantly fewer gambling harms than many other forms of gambling, to play a National Lottery game is undeniably gambling, which the National Lottery operator should bear in mind. Including GambleAware branding on National Lottery products would serve 36 What next for the National Lottery? two discrete but connected purposes. First, it would signpost to National Lottery players the avenues to go down should they begin to suffer gambling harms from National Lottery products. Secondly, as 44% of people play the National Lottery, it would also massively increase the visibility of GambleAware, making players more likely to contact the service should they or someone close to them begin to suffer gambling harms from other forms of gambling.
From: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Fourth Report - What next for the National Lottery? (HC 154), paragraph 58, 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.