Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the difference has been in the amount of projected funds raised for good causes by the National Lottery and actual funds so raised in the most recent bid period for which such information is available.
The Gambling Commission provides DCMS and the Lottery Distributing Bodies with good cause forecasts updated on a six-monthly basis to assist them with their grant planning. The forecast is presented as a range, with low, high and central scenarios. The modelling approach is regularly refined to ensure the forecasts remain as accurate as possible. We do not publish this information given commercial sensitivities.
Actual returns are broadly consistent with these forecasts. The National Lottery returned £1,833m to good causes in 2020/21.