Strategic Focus 5: Regulating a successful National Lottery
It is our responsibility, in accordance with our statutory function, core regulatory outcomes, to uphold the National Lottery duties, ensuring that the Lottery is run with all due propriety, in a way that protects consumers interests, and then ensures the maximisation of returns to good causes.
We are required to meet the contractual obligations and requirements under the Enabling Agreement for the assessment and determination of Recoverable Implementation Costs.
We have been regulating the new National Lottery operator, Allwyn, under the new Licence framework since February 2024. We have devised and implemented our regulatory approach and continue to refine this.
This year we will:
- continue to obtain assurance (including National Lottery Distribution Fund (NLDF) assurance) from the operator that it is achieving the outcomes of the licence
- process licensing applications in line with our regulatory remit
- maintain our oversight and monitoring of the operator’s performance
- close down the Fourth National Lottery (4NL) Programme overseeing the operator’s implementation of its application
- implement a robust process for determining recoverable implementation costs in line with the Enabling Agreement
- ensure the appropriate amount of the operator’s implementation costs are recovered
- ensure successful knowledge and information transfer of relevant items to the 4NL Regulation team
- ensure the National Lottery continues to be regulated effectively.
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Last updated: 21 April 2026
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