HL Deb 14 January 1985 vol 458 cc856-7WA
Baroness Lane-Fox

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Which countries organise national lotteries in connection with health services.

Lord Elton

We have no firm information about state controlled lotteries in other countries. The reports of the Royal Commission on Gambling (Cmnd. 7200, published in 1978) and of the Interdepartmental Working Party on Lotteries (Cmnd. 5506, published in 1973) mentioned the following as countries in which such lotteries were then in operation:

Argentina Malaysia
Australia Malta
Belgium Netherlands
Bulgaria New Zealand
Canada Norway
Czechoslovakia Panama
Denmark Poland
Dominican Republic Portugal
Federal Republic of Germany Republic of Ireland
Finland Romania
France Spain
German Democratic Republic Sri Lanka
Greece Sweden
Hungary Switzerland
Israel USA
Italy USSR
Japan Yugoslavia

It is not known which if any of these countries devoted any part of the proceeds of the state controlled lottery to health services.