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Health Lottery: Licensing

Asked by Alex SobelLabour (Co-op)Department for Culture, Media and SportTabled Answered 25 November 2024UIN 14694

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of reviewing the Health Lottery’s licence to operate.

Answered by Stephanie Peacock

The oversight of both operating and personal management licences for society lotteries, including assessing an applicant’s suitability to hold a licence, is a matter for the Gambling Commission.

More information about the Gambling Commission’s principles for licensing and regulation and licensing, compliance and enforcement under the Gambling Act 2005 can be found on the Commission’s website here and here.

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