Charities: Lotteries

(asked on 25th October 2022) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has plans to review the cap on how much charity lotteries can donate to causes per year.


Answered by
Stuart Andrew Portrait
Stuart Andrew
Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This question was answered on 31st October 2022

Large society lotteries raised a record £402 million for good causes between April 2020 and March 2021. Currently, society lotteries must return a minimum of 20% of ticket sales revenue per draw to good causes, but there is no cap on annual donations. The current average return to good causes stands at 46%.

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