Ms Carol Boate:

No. There are currently 19 varieties of scratch card on sale and they do not include Christmas games. More than 19 have been approved. Next Christmas, the operator will consider which of those to resurrect and sell at Christmas time. Each year, the game may be slightly changed. The scratch cards on sale 25 years ago would look very old-fashioned to us. They would be in pounds and the amount of money may not seem exciting to us. Scratch cards always change over time. A lottery is unusual because the same thing is being sold over and over again but it must be kept fresh such that it does not look dated and it must be kept interesting. Operators regularly change the games and may make the jackpot higher or put in a new set of prizes at a certain value. It may seem odd to have all of these approvals but only a certain amount on sale, but that is because they become outdated and a new version comes out the following year or two years later.