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Ethnicity of claimants

Request date
15 July 2025

Outcome
Information not held

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Request

A comprehensive breakdown of the total numbers relating to the ethnicity of claimants as per the over £50,000 claim's form filled out by National Lottery prize winners for the financial year of 2014/2015. If you cannot provide the numbers for 2014/2015 then please provide the numbers for 2015/2016.

  1. English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British
  2. Irish
  3. Gypsy or Irish Traveller
  4. Other White background
  5. White and Black Caribbean
  6. White and Black African
  7. White and Asian
  8. Other Mixed/Multiple ethnic background
  9. Indian
  10. Pakistani
  11. Bangladeshi
  12. Chinese
  13. Other Asian background
  14. African
  15. Caribbean
  16. Other Black/African/Caribbean background
  17. Arab
  18. Other ethnic group’

Response

Thank you for your request which has been processed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).

In your email you have requested:

‘A comprehensive breakdown of the total numbers relating to the ethnicity of claimants as per the over £50,000 claim's form filled out by National Lottery prize winners for the financial year of 2014/2015. If you cannot provide the numbers for 2014/2015 then please provide the numbers for 2015/2016.

  1. English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British
  2. Irish
  3. Gypsy or Irish Traveller
  4. Other White background
  5. White and Black Caribbean
  6. White and Black African
  7. White and Asian
  8. Other Mixed/Multiple ethnic background
  9. Indian
  10. Pakistani
  11. Bangladeshi
  12. Chinese
  13. Other Asian background
  14. African
  15. Caribbean
  16. Other Black/African/Caribbean background
  17. Arab
  18. Other ethnic group’

The Gambling Commission can confirm that no information is held falling within the scope of your request.

Review of the decision

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your Freedom of Information request you are entitled to an internal review of our decision. You should write to FOI Team, Gambling Commission, 4th floor, Victoria Square House, Victoria Square, Birmingham, B2 4BP or by reply to this email. 

Please note, internal review requests should be made within 40 working days of the initial response. Requests made outside this timeframe will not be processed.

If you are not content with the outcome of our review, you may then apply directly to the Information Commissioner (ICO) for a decision. Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have already exhausted the review procedure provided by the Gambling Commission. 

It should be noted that if you wish to raise a complaint with the ICO about the Commission’s handling of your request for information, then you are required to do so within six weeks of receiving your final response or last substantive contact with us.

The ICO can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office (opens in new tab), Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

Information Management Team
Gambling Commission

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