Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with the National Lottery about extending funding to the video games industry.

No specific discussions have taken place with the National Lottery about the use of Lottery funding in relation to the video games industry. This Government has restored the Lottery shares for heritage sports, and arts good causes to 20%, so contributing to a significant increase in Lottery funding for those areas since the beginning of this Parliament. It is for individual Distributing bodies to determine the beneficiaries of Lottery monies in making awards within their good cause sectors, taking account of their Policy Directions.