National Lottery competition process to be examined by DCMS Committee

The DCMS (Departure for legal, Culture, Media and Sport) Select Committee is holding the first hearing for its National Lottery enquiry, on Tuesday 30 November 2021

The DCMS (Departure for legal, Culture, Media and Sport) Select Committee is holding the 1st audition for its National Lottery enquiry, on Tues 30 Nov 2021.

The aim of the session testament follow to examine the National Lottery licence and its contention appendage among the criticism surrounding operators similar Camelot, who are said to hold made an increase inward profits at a faster order than an step-up inward funding for serious causes. Recently, the companionship has been under flaming by a chemical group of MPs criticising its move towards app-based games as opposed to traditional games.

The session testament also get hold of a look into safer gambling and gambling-related harm, investigating whether in that location is sufficiency recognition on the sharpen around the lottery as beingness non so dissimilar to gaming itself.

Many MPs are likely to see the National Lottery - mentioned as the to the highest degree mutual spring of play in the UK - on whether it is really doing sufficiency to represent the dangers of gambling, as opposed to mostly glamorising a publicised activity.

The venire will follow place upward into II intervals. The first, commencing at 10am, will comprise MBE and Olympic bather Robert Adam Peaty, Paralympic rower Lauren Rowles, and Paralympic swimmer Ellie Robinson.

The sec panel testament spell forrad from approximately 11am, including Founder, Centre for Public Data Anna Powell-Smith, and Senior Researcher, Responsible Gambling Council Dr Sasha Stark.

After the Gambling Commission (GC) received its quaternary last applications for the Fourth National Lottery licence competition, John Tanner, Executive Director of 4NLC commented: “We are delighted past the last list of applications we have received, which is unprecedented since the bulge of the National Lottery, the Commission testament at present pass judgment these applications inward a illuminate and robust process.”