Ms Carol Boate:

The parties to the licence are the State that is, the Minister, and the operator. In signing this, the intention was that they would be given this ring-fenced money to spend on promoting the national lottery. As I said, that is common in lottery licences internationally. My understanding is that that is their intention and that it would be at the discretion of the operator. Maybe it is because we used to have a system whereby expired unclaimed prizes were used solely as top-up and additional prizes and we have moved away from that, but they seem to have wanted to keep some aspect of that tradition. My understanding is that that was actually the intention of the parties and that they are not doing anything that was not the intention of the State when this licence was signed.