Reports EUROPEAN LOTTERIES
UNITED KINGDOM LOTTERY National Lottery
OPERATOR Camelot Group 2009-2019
REGULATOR National Lottery Commission SYSTEM Camelot Global
RETAILERS 47,000 ANNUAL SALES 7.2bn (2014/15)
Te National Lottery introduced changes to its Lotto game in October last year with the addition of 10 new numbers and extra raffle prizes – making it easier to become a millionaire, but harder to win the jackpot
Te first National Lottery draw in the UK took place in 1994. Since then they have raised over £34bn for sports, arts, heritage and educational causes and paid out £56bn in prizes and created over 4,000 millionaires since its launch. Te funding of causes is handled by 12
distribution bodies (National Lottery Distribution Fund) which responds to requests from charities and sport organisations. Te Department of Culture, Media and Sport sets the framework for these bodies and National Lottery legislation. Some 70 percent of UK adult residents play
the lottery regularly. Te lottery is operated by Camelot (owned in turn by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan) who has won three successive licence bids (until 2019 with four years added to run until 2023) to run the lottery on behalf of the National Lottery Commission (which merged with the UK Gambling Commission in 2013) which then awards the operating licence.
Te lottery consists of draw based games which are:
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Lotto – played Wednesday and Saturdays and a chance to win millions.
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Tunderball – A chance to win £500,000 on a £1 game three times a week
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Hotpicks – Pick and match fewer Lotto numbers every Wednesday and Saturday.
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Euromillions – played Tuesday and Fridays for millions.
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Instant Win Games – range of interactive games and instant cash prizes. Tese and the scratchcards operate under the umbrella brand ‘GameStore’.
Players must be located in the UK or Isle of
Man to play and aged 16 years and over and can buy tickets via the 47,000 retail outlets, over the internet, via FastPay outlets at supermarket checkouts or using a mobile app. Approximately from every £1 of ticket sales –
50p is paid out in prizes, 28p given to good causes, 12p is lottery duty, 5p goes to the retailer and 5p is retained by operator. Sales surged for the year end 2015 reaching
£7.27bn compared to £6.73bn the year previously. Tis was divided between sales for draw based games totalling £4.64bn and scratchcard sales at £2.62bn (an increase of £487m). Of these sales total prizes were £4.04bn (55.6
percent), Lottery duty was £873.4m (12 percent), £1.79bn (24.7 percent) to the lottery fund,
£333.3m (4.6 percent) in retailer commissions and the remaining as operational fees are retained by Camelot. Group profit for last year was £71m.
OUTLOOK Te National Lottery introduced changes to its
Lotto game in October last year with the addition of 10 new numbers and extra raffle prizes – making it easier to become a millionaire but harder to win the jackpot. It is the biggest shake up in the Lotto’s 21 year
history and now players choose six numbers from 50 instead of 49 numbers. Tere is now a one in 45 million chance of winning the jackpot compared to one in 14 million chance previously. On the other hand there is a one in nine chance of winning a prize compared to one in 54 chance previously.
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