In a debate in the House of Lords last Thursday, Labour Viscount Chandos Thomas Lyttelton asked whether the franchise award to Allwyn by the Gambling Commission may have been \u201cbased on a false prospectus.\u201d<\/p>\n
Today is the first day of the new lottery franchise, yet the new franchisee has already talked about struggling to match previous years\u2019 distribution [to good causes] and a delay in any increase,”<\/strong> Lytteton noted. \u201cIf, as is now predicted, lottery funding for the arts and other good causes does not meet the original projections on which the franchise was awarded, will the government make up the difference through an increase in the grant-in-aid?\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nLyttelton suggested that the policy that keeps lottery and government funding separate should be relaxed during the first few years of Allwyn\u2019s tenure to compensate charities for the shortfall.<\/p>\n
Dialing Back New Games<\/strong><\/h2>\nAllwyn hoped to increase lottery revenues by adding new games and draws to attract younger users. But in the first year of operations, lottery sales from prize draws and scratch cards are expected to drop, forcing it to dial back on its pledge to introduce new games for the time being.<\/p>\n
The operator also said that its plan to reduce the ticket cost from \u00a32 to \u00a31 was also under review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Allwyn Entertainment officially took over the reins as the UK\u2019s new lottery operator last week. Yet it has already admitted that it won\u2019t hit its promised short-term targets on donations to good causes. That\u2019s controversial because Allwyn won the estimated $80 billion (US$100 billion) tender, one of the UK\u2019s biggest public sector contracts, based on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":309603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,33810,13699],"tags":[89751,85667,89752,82142],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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