Ms Carol Boate:

I thank the Deputy. The technology that runs the national lottery is a web of hardware and software processes and procedures. The core gaming system is one designed to record all the tickets sold and all the prizes won to be paid out. That came from an international company that specialises in these types of systems, of which there are only a few in the world. That is held by the national lottery and only certain staff members are allowed access to it. They certainly could not bring it home.

Perhaps one of the useful things to understand is that a separate independent verification system is being operated at the same time to also record all the tickets that are being sold for the draw. It is operated by a separate independent team and the draw is only allowed to take place if those two systems match.