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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The worst that has happened then is that there have been breaches and they have been noted in the regulator’s annual report.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What would the operator have to do in order to have a breach worse than being noted in the annual report, that is, in order for the regulator to take action which would have other consequences? How bad does the action of the operator have to be?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: But contacting people who have been self-excluded is not one of those things? Problem gamblers who are self-excluded do not meet that strawberry farming test?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have one question on the 48 self-excluded people who were contacted. How many self-excluded in 2021 and in 2020? What is the number of people who self-excluded?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes, I do. That is what I want to know.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Is it easy to check? Is it something Ms Boate can come back with after the break?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That would be good. Thank you.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Can Ms Boate get back to the Chair by the end of the meeting? Is that something somebody could check?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry that I was not here when Ms Boate was clarifying the number. Will she clarify it for me?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The regulator has it on a quarterly basis so it can just get those four reports, add them up and send them to me. Is that it?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Right. Can I ask about the 45 as a proportion who had been contacted. Is that a figure that caused significant concern to the regulator? Is it 45 out of 50? Is it 45 out of 500? Ms Boate must have some sense of the scale.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Ms Boate will come back to the committee with that figure.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is literally the point I was making earlier. The failure when there was a breach was significant and important. The regulator noted it but applied no sanction and that is what concerns me.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Then I learn that no sanction has been applied in any case beyond the noting in an annual report which, forgive me, is just not that scary.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Ms Boate said there was a method by which the regulator could withhold funds. That is a sanction.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is important for us to understand the relationship between the regulator and the operator. When Ms Boate comes back, will she give us a sense of the number of times there has been a breach? She has spoken about the establishment of her office five years ago, so perhaps she can tell us how many times there has been a breach in the past five years. Ms Boate says she has considered the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will return to the whole shall-may thing. I am sorry to go back to it. It really is a difficult one for us and I will say why. Even looking at the children's referendum and the language around that, the words "shall" and "may" are constantly in debate on legislation. Perhaps as legislators we are overindexing, so to speak, on this point but it really speaks to us. Returning to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021: National Lottery Fund (24 Nov 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is fine. No problem. What proportion of that is the kind of advertising I am speaking about, which is the type that radio or newspapers might depend on?