Lottery regulator publishes Annual Report and Accounts 2009/10

MEDIA RELEASE

REF 07-10

15 July 2010

The National Lottery Commission has today published its Annual Report and Accounts for the financial year 2009/10.

The Commission has overseen a successful year for the National Lottery which has seen £1.6 billion raised for good causes, a 15 percent increase on last year. £90 million of this is the direct result of the new licence structure, which the Commission secured in the last licence competition.

Mark Harris, Chief Executive and Commissioner said:
“This has been an eventful year for the Commission and the National Lottery, with the improved terms of the third licence already delivering better returns for good causes. The Commission is delighted that the benefits of the competition for the third Lottery licence are being realised.

We have encountered some unique challenges over the course of the year which will have far reaching consequences for the future ownership and regulation of the National Lottery. But players can have absolute confidence that the Commission is working hard to ensure that the Lottery is fair and safe, and will continue to be run in the public interest.”
A copy of the report is available for download here.

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For further information or a hard copy of the report, please contact Claire Wotherspoon 020 7016 3422 or C.wotherspoon@natlotcomm.gov.uk

Notes for editors
1. The National Lottery Commission is the non-departmental public body set up on 1 April 1999 to regulate the National Lottery. It regulates the Lottery to ensure that players are treated fairly, the Nation’s interest in the Lottery is protected and that subject to that as much money as possible is raised for good causes.
2. The National Lottery will contribute £2.175 billion towards the costs of staging the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, of which £750 million will come from designated Lottery games including Dream Number, Scratchcards and online games. To date over £500 million has been raised from designated games. The National Lottery Commission publishes quarterly reports on the progress towards the £750 million target on www.natlotcomm.gov.uk
3. Camelot Group Limited was awarded the third licence, which came into effect on 1 February 2009. The licence competition was structured to reinvigorate the National Lottery and generate the greatest returns to good causes. Comparing the third licence with the remainder of the second licence and assuming a constant level of sales of £5 billion a year, it is estimated that the third licence will deliver an average annual increase in returns to good causes of between £60 – £100 million.
4. To subscribe to NLC press releases please contact Claire Wotherspoon 020 7016 3422 or email C.wotherspoon@natlotcomm.gov.uk

Related downloads

• Annual Report 2009-10

  Annual Report 2009-10

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