This paper provides national and regional figures for the number of public houses and bars in the UK, as well as employment data.
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The National Lottery: how does it work? (586 KB, PDF)
The National Lottery began in November 1994. Since then, it has raised over £40 billion for good causes and awarded over 535,000 grants.
There are four parties that contribute to running the Lottery:
- the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport;
- Camelot Group plc, the current operator;
- the Gambling Commission;
- the individual distributing bodies of Lottery money.
The third licence to run the Lottery came into force in February 2009. It expires in 2023. The fourth licensing competition is expected to begin in 2020, with the successful applicant announced in 2021. The Gambling Commission will design and run the competition.
This Paper gives a brief overview of how the Lottery works and some of the issues that have been raised about its future. These include:
- the need to better publicise the Lottery’s benefits to good causes;
- whether the minimum age for playing games should be raised from 16 to 18.
Documents to download
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The National Lottery: how does it work? (586 KB, PDF)
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