Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill [Lords]

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 9:02 pm on 7 April 1998.

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Photo of Andrew Lansley Andrew Lansley Conservative, South Cambridgeshire 9:02, 7 April 1998

Does my hon. Friend agree that not only has Camelot already delivered £4.9 billion by way of revenue to good causes, compared to a forecast of slightly more than £4 billion, but it accepted the downside risk of, for example, penalties of £1 million a day if it did not deliver a successful national lottery on the day that it pledged in the contract, over a very short time scale? No doubt the Secretary of State is introducing a further risk of penalties—unlimited financial penalties, which were not in the contract that was entered into at the start of the franchise.