Ms Carol Boate:

In respect of the powers under the Act, it is important to note we use all of the tools available to us. They are broad-ranging. Deputy Doherty is no longer here and I did not get a chance to say all of the things we are doing. It is not clear from looking at the licence on our website. We have enormous power in some ways. I can ask for any information and the operator has to give it to me. It is given it to me and on time. We have 31 different regular reports coming into to us. I mentioned this earlier. It is like having tentacles into the company. We get all of this information from its finances, how it operates and its security controls. That is fed into us regularly.

We have real-time access to their data. We can see the sales of every single scratch card and lotto ticket throughout the country as they come in. We use all of that information to check, for example, that more than 50% of sales are going into prizes, that 6% is going to retailers to pay their commission, the right amount is going to good causes, and what we are told is being sold is what is being sold. We have huge power in that respect. I refer also to the power to pre-approve. We do not run the company. The operator does. We check it is in compliance. Having the power, with some aspects, to say certain things are not compliant before they are done is a great help.