Public Expenditure and Reform | National Lottery advertising spending this year

To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount of spending by the National Lottery on advertising in each of the past twelve months to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

REPLY
The total amount of spending by the Operator of the National Lottery on advertising per annum is the confidential and commercially sensitive information of the Operator, within the meaning of Clause 20.6 of the Licence to operate the National Lottery, and therefore is not provided to me, the Minister, and cannot be disclosed by the Regulator to the Minister without the Operator’s consent. The Regulator asked the Operator if it wished to consent to this information being released and no consent was given.