National Lottery

(asked on 26th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many national lottery participants there are each year on average; and how much on average is lost by the highest spending players.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 3rd February 2022

Data from the National Lottery operator suggests that in 2020/21 c.68% of UK adults played National Lottery games once a year or more. This equates to more than 37 million people buying a National Lottery ticket in 2020/21. Around 60% of people played once a quarter.

The Gambling Commission’s Quarterly Telephone Survey suggests that for the years ending 2019 and 2020, the 12-month rolling average of people aged 16 and over who had participated in any National Lottery game within the past four weeks ranged from 31.1% (an estimated 16,427,547 people when applied to UK mid-year population estimates from the Office for National Statistics) to 34.1% (an estimated 17,930,097 people).

The Gambling Commission does not routinely hold data in respect of how much on average is lost by the highest spending National Lottery players. However, the Gambling Commission regularly monitors a range of player spend data, which includes outlier groups and specific cohorts of players, in line with its statutory duty to ensure the interests of participants in the National Lottery are protected.

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