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Oral Answers to Questions

Tracey Crouch Excerpts
Thursday 3rd July 2014

(9 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Tracey Crouch Portrait Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford) (Con)
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The Secretary of State will be aware that alongside the national lottery, society lotteries contributed £145 million to good causes in 2012-13 and could provide a lot more if the prizes, draw and turnover rules were deregulated. His Department has long promised a consultation on this but has yet to publish it. In the light of the recent Centre for Economics and Business Research report on society lotteries, can he tell the House when the consultation might come?

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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Changes in lottery and gambling markets have made it clear to us that the consultation on society lotteries should be more wide ranging than we had previously thought. The Gambling Commission is providing us with further information and advice, and we are planning to conduct the consultation later this year.