Wendy Morton MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Tourism: BirminghamDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44994More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of bin strikes in Birmingham on levels of international tourism to the area.
Answer: No, because it is obvious that it would be better for all if the strikes were to end.
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLotteries: TaxationDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43067More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for what reason it is her policy to place a mandatory gambling levy on society lotteries while not requiring the National Lottery to make a mandatory problem gambling contribution.
Answer: Under the terms of the fourth licence, the National Lottery operator, Allwyn, is required to make a £1.6million annual contribution to socially responsible purposes such as research and treatment.Society lotteries will be charged the levy at the lowest ra...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordListed Places of Worship Grant SchemeDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42596More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of the planned changes to the Listed Places of Worship grant scheme on listed places of worship.
Answer: DCMS Ministers received advice on changes to the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme, including consideration of the potential impacts of various options to scale the scheme. The changes announced were necessary given the tight fiscal challenges we inhe...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCharities: LotteriesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 7 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36404More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to increase the (a) transparency and (b) accountability of lottery fundraising by charities.
Answer: The transparency and accountability of society lottery operators is a matter for the Gambling Commission through its Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP). The Minister for Gambling has no current plans to take action in this area.
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCharities: LotteriesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 7 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36403More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans her Department has to remove the cap on charity lottery ticket sales.
Answer: Society lotteries are a vital fundraising tool for many charities, community groups, sports clubs and other non-commercial organisations. We are carefully considering calls to increase or remove limits on ticket sales, alongside the results of independen...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: TaxationDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17539More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact on charity lotteries of introducing a statutory levy on gambling operators.
Answer: As set out in the Government’s response to the consultation on the statutory levy, we will introduce a statutory levy charged to all licensed gambling operators. Society lotteries will be charged the levy at the lowest rate of 0.1%, in recognition of the ...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPrize Money: ResearchDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17538More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to publish research commissioned by her department to gather evidence about the (a) size and (b) nature of the prize draw sector.
Answer: The Department is still considering the findings of the independent research, which looked at the size and nature of the prize draw market, as well as possible gambling harm associated with these products. This research is informing our policy considerati...
Answered 11 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordLotteries: TaxationDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10734More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of applying zero rate Society Lotteries to a compulsory levy for problem gambling.
Answer: Society lotteries are a vital fundraising tool for many charities, community groups, sports clubs and other non-commercial organisations.The Government is committed to reviewing the best available evidence from a wide range of sources and working with all...
Answered 1 Nov 2024
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