Ms Carol Boate:

I am happy that everything I have seen suggests that the operator is fully compliant with the terms of the licence. It is not unusual for a budget to be created for the operator in the design of a licence. I noted some earlier comments about the UK model and I have looked into this previously. In the UK model, expired prizes go to good causes. However, money is also regularly taken out of good causes and given to the operator to promote the national lottery, which I believe is of a similar order to the design of our licence model. It is not an uncommon feature of lottery licences.