Gambling - DCMS Consultation on Society Lottery Reform

On Friday 29^th June the DCMS launched a consultation on Society Lottery Reform which will run until 11:45pm on 7^th September 2018.

The consultation explores a number of proposals including raising the annual limit of society lottery sales from £10m to £100m a year and increasing the maximum prize from £400,000 to £500,000.

The DCMS are consulting on options in the following four areas: 

• Large society lotteries: Individual per draw sales limits; (currently limited to £4m, the Government’s preferred option is to raise this to £5m)
• Large society lotteries: Individual per draw prize limits; (currently limited to £400k, the Government’s preferred option is to raise this to £500k)
• Large society lotteries: Annual sales limits; (currently limited to £10m, the Government’s preferred option is to raise this to £100m)
• Small society lotteries: Individual per draw and annual sales limits.(currently limited to £20k and 250k respectively, the Government’s has not indicated a preferred option)

On the consultation’s homepage interested parties can find an online link to, an email address or postal address for responses.

We shall keep you updated.