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Strategic focus 5: Regulating a successful National Lottery

For the first time in the history of the National Lottery there has been a change in licensee. We have been regulating the new operator under the new Licence framework since February 2024 and continue to refine our approach.

Our priority, in accordance with our statutory function and core regulatory outcomes, is 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.

Fourth National Lottery Licence

We will: Complete our oversight and assurance of the implementation of the successful Application to run the Fourth National Lottery Licence.

Why: This is part of our strategic commitment to complete our oversight and assurance of the transition to, and implementation of, the Fourth National Lottery Licence and to embed our regulatory approach to the Fourth Licence.

As a result: We will oversee and assure the delivery of Allwyn’s Application in full in line with legal commitments. We will successfully close down the 4NL programme and ensure successful knowledge transfer of relevant items to the 4NL regulation team. We will measure success by assessing whether the programme is successfully closed down in a timely manner following Allwyn’s full delivery of its Application.

And the impact for our stakeholders will be: Successful delivery of the changes to the National Lottery is expected to provide a more modern, relevant and streamlined experience for consumers across both retail and online channels with new games, ways of playing and enhanced consumer protection measures.

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