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The Government’s response to the CMS Select Committee’s report on society lotteries advised that it intended to explore all the recommendations further, with advice from the Gambling Commission. The response was published in September 2015 and can be found here: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmselect/cmcumeds/415/415.pdf

We are carefully considering the issues raised by the Select Committee and continue to take advice from the Gambling Commission as we consider policy options.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Chatham and Aylesford" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Tracey Crouch" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2017-10-23"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2017-10-23T16:14:12.277Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

The Government’s response to the CMS Select Committee’s report on society lotteries advised that it intended to explore all the recommendations further, with advice from the Gambling Commission. We are carefully considering the issues raised by the Select Committee and continue to take advice from the Gambling Commission as we consider policy options.

We expect that the Gambling Commission will publish their advice in due course, when Government has made an announcement on its conclusions.

The Gambling Commission are currently consulting on on increasing provisions around transparency for society lotteries. The consultation closes on 30 September 2017 and can be found here:

http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/news-action-and-statistics/Consultations/Open-consultations/Have-your-say-on-changes-to-society-lottery-codes-of-practice.aspx

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Chatham and Aylesford" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Tracey Crouch" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2017-09-19"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:groupedQuestionUIN "9896" ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2017-09-19T10:52:14.05Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "10" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Digital, Culture, Media and Sport" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Digital, Culture, Media and Sport" ; parl:hansardHeading "Lotteries" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to publish the proposals from the Gambling Commission for the reform of the Society Lottery sector." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Cannock Chase" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Amanda Milling" ; parl:uin "9897" ; dcterms:date "2017-09-11"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Tracey Crouch" . parl:answerText "

a) Details of ministerial meetings can be found on gov.uk and are published quarterly. DCMS ministerial meetings for the past 24 months can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dcms-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-1-january-to-31-march-2017

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dcms-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-1-october-to-31-december-2016

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dcms-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-1-july-to-30-september-2016

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dcms-ministerial-hospitality-overseas-travel-meetings-and-gifts-1-april-2016-to-30-june-2016

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dcms-ministerial-hospitality-overseas-travel-meetings-and-gifts-1-january-2016-to-31-march-2016

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dcms-ministerial-hospitality-overseas-travel-meetings-and-gifts-1-october-2015-to-31-december-2015

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dcms-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-july-to-september-2015

b) Officials of the department meet regularly with Camelot and the Gambling Commission to discuss their role as Lottery operator.

In the last 24 months, officials have met with Lottoland 2 times (03/07/17 and 29/07/17), The Health Lottery once (03/05/2016) and The People's Postcode Lottery 2 times (18/03/16 and 27/10/17). These dates exclude ministerial meetings which were also attended by officials.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Chatham and Aylesford" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Tracey Crouch" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2017-07-20"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2017-07-20T10:35:13.407Z"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Ronnie Cowan" . rdfs:label "Biography information for Dame Amanda Milling" . rdfs:label "Biography information for Philip Davies" . skos:prefLabel "House of Commons" . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "10" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Digital, Culture, Media and Sport" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Digital, Culture, Media and Sport" ; parl:hansardHeading "Lotteries" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials of her Department have had with representatives from (i) Camelot, (ii) Lottoland, (iii) the Health Lottery and (iv) the People's Postcode Lottery in each of the last 24 months." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Shipley" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Philip Davies" ; parl:uin "4877" ; dcterms:date "2017-07-13"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

Camelot, the National Lottery operator, advertises GamCare (where details of the National Gambling Helpline can be found) through the following point of sale sources:

  • On the back of scratchcards
  • On the back of lottery tickets
  • At the bottom of the title page and each 'play game' page of the National Lottery website
  • Within all player guides

In addition, Camelot's licences contain various conditions that require them to ensure that both excessive and underage play are discouraged on lottery products

Society lotteries are subject to the same regulations as gambling operators, as stipulated by The Gambling Commission's Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice and the Industry Group for Responsible Gambling. This includes the requirement to reference gambleaware.co.uk in all print and broadcast advertisements.


At present there are no plans to change the requirements for National Lottery advertising or society lottery advertising.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Chatham and Aylesford" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Tracey Crouch" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2017-07-04"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2017-07-04T12:01:27.817Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "10" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department for Culture, Media and Sport" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Culture, Media and Sport" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Culture, Media and Sport" ; parl:hansardHeading "Lotteries" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will bring forward proposals to require advertising of the National Gambling Helpline or BeGambleAware.org at the point of sale of lottery products, both in shops and online." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Inverclyde" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Ronnie Cowan" ; parl:uin "1364" ; dcterms:date "2017-06-27"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "10" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Digital, Culture, Media and Sport" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Digital, Culture, Media and Sport" ; parl:hansardHeading "Lotteries" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will respond to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee report, on Societies' Lotteries, published on 25 March 2015, HC 615, before the November 2017 Parliamentary recess." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Cardiff Central" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Jo Stevens" ; parl:uin "108457" ; dcterms:date "2017-10-18"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Jo Stevens" . a api:ListEndpoint ; dcterms:hasPart ; api:definition . a api:Page ; "10"^^xsd:long ; "1"^^xsd:long ; "4"^^xsd:long ; dcterms:isPartOf ; api:definition ; api:extendedMetadataVersion ; api:items ( ) ; api:page "0"^^xsd:long ; .