Amount spent on scratchcards, and amounts made available to good causes

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Gambling Commission should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Gambling Commission,

Please can you provide me with the total amounts that were spent on national lottery scratchcards in the UK in each of the last five years for which figures are available, and how much from those sales was then used to support good causes, over the same time periods.

Yours faithfully,

Julie Sheppard

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Dear Gambling Commission,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Gambling Commission's handling of my FOI request 'Amount spent on scratchcards, and amounts made available to good causes'.

The response is over a month overdue and failure to respond is breaking the law, which isn't ideal from a UK regulator.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/a...

Yours faithfully,

Julie Sheppard

no-reply, Gambling Commission

Hello Julie Sheppard,

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response time is within 20 working days.

Please note that we do not become involved in individual customer
complaints. Our website contains information that you might find useful
including how to complain to a gambling business.

All this can be found at www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk

Kind Regards

The Gambling Commission