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Camelot Group plc was today named by the National Lottery Commission (NLC) as the Preferred Bidder for the third lottery licence.
Dianne Thompson CBE, Camelot Chief Executive, said:
I am particularly pleased for all our staff, who put more than 50,000 working days into writing the best possible bid. My thanks go to all of them, together with our shareholders for their investment in Camelot’s bid.
“We now need to agree the final form of the licence. The competition is not over until this has been done. I have also activated the transition plans which we have carefully prepared in tandem with our bid over the last two years. So we have a very challenging period ahead.”
Camelot today reveals a number of initiatives to ensure The National Lottery is in the best possible shape for the start of the new licence in 2009. Highlights include:
Promotion of Good Causes: Camelot is responsible for raising money for the Good Causes, but not for awarding lottery grants (which falls to 15 lottery distribution bodies). Camelot fully endorses this separation of duties. However, Camelot’s research shows that the lottery-playing public knows very little about how lottery money is awarded in their name. Camelot has commissioned a report from Vanessa Potter (formerly Director of Policy and External Affairs for the Big Lottery Fund) and Dr Jonathan Scales – both of Strategy Complete – to examine how lottery grant-giving has been promoted to the public over the last 13 years.
Tax Review: Camelot has been working with PwC on proposals to migrate all or part of The National Lottery from a Lottery Duty regime to a Gross Profits Tax regime, which will benefit players and Good Causes alike. The PwC report is now complete and Camelot will be formally submitting it to HM Treasury, the Department of Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and the NLC next week. Camelot is working on other policy reviews which it plans to submit to Government and the NLC from September 2007.
Camelot intends to issue progress reports about this work programme to the public, its staff and other lottery stakeholders between now and the start of the new licence in 2009. There will be at least one major update before the end of this calendar year, which will also include more details about Camelot’s plans for the lottery for the start of the new licence on 1 February 2009.
Dianne Thompson added: “I would like to put on record my thanks to the NLC for putting its trust in Camelot to develop and nurture The National Lottery in what will be its third decade. We won’t let them down.”
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