§ Mr. Alex CarlileTo ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if he will bring forward proposals to revise the operation of the national lottery to provide that it will return all profits to the community in the form of funding for the arts, charities, and sport, to exempt the profits from tax and to match distributed profits with grants from public funds; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. BrookeI have no intention of revising the basis for the operation of the national lottery, which was approved by Parliament in the National Lottery etc. Act 1993. There is no question of matching the sums raised from the national lottery with further Exchequer grants. Taxation is a matter for my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer.